宇野利泰

Uno Toshiyasu

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Short Story

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

When George McWhirter Fotheringay discovers that he can work miracles by sheer force of will, the results are wont to bring unexpected consequences, leading to one final miracle that invokes time travel. —Michael Main
As he struggled to get his shirt over his head, he was struck with a brilliant idea. “Let me be in bed,” he said, and found himself so. “Undressed,’ he stipulated; and, finding the sheets cold, added hastily, ’and in my nightshirt—ho, in a nice soft woolen nightshirt. Ah!” he said with immense enjoyment. “And now let me be comfortably asleep . . .”
The first page of “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”, including an illustration of men in a bar, astonished at a floating lamp.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The New Accelerator

The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more. —Michael Main
I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”
Black-and-white drawing of two middle-aged Englishmen in a sparse laboratory discussing a vial of liquid.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena