Rog Phillips 22 min read

A tireless hunter runs down a deer at express-train speed across an untamed land, and, at the crest of a hill, the scene that bursts into view stuns him.

Rog Phillips's 1948 story opens on the superhuman Jan mid-chase, before a startling shift launches its time-travel tale. Fast-moving, imaginative golden-age SF with a strong hook. Read it for a story that begins with a primal hunt and opens onto something far larger.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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