Robert F. Young 1 hr 11 min read

A time-thief steals into sixth-century Britain to lift the Holy Grail, Chaucer by way of the space age.

Robert F. Young's 1963 story sends Mallory and his time-space boat Yore back to the year 542 to filch the Grail from the castle of Carbonek, mixing Arthurian legend, Chaucerian epigraph, and gadget-happy SF into a witty caper. Young was a magazine romantic with a literary streak, and it shows. Read it for a charming, erudite time-travel heist that wears its Canterbury Tales on its sleeve.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 11 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Summers