William W. Stuart 21 min read

A man plots five years' revenge on the scientist friend who stole his girl, using time itself as the weapon.

William W. Stuart's 1960 comedy is narrated by a man nursing a boyhood grudge against Professor Thurlow Benjamin, who twice took his sweetheart, and who is about to learn that time can be made to run out on a rival. Fast, punning, good-humored magazine SF built on a tangled time-travel scheme and an unreliable, vengeful narrator. Read it for a light, tricksy tale of romantic revenge with a temporal twist.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

21 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Burns