Robert Moore Williams 48 min read

As night flows into the valleys of a dawn-or-dusk world, a fifty-foot ball rests on a hill, and slowly begins to lift.

Robert Moore Williams's 1941 story opens with lyrical description of an ancient, birdsong-haunted landscape and a mysterious rising sphere, launching a time-travel tale. Atmospheric, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a moody story that opens on a strange twilight world and the machine waking within it.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

48 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

John R. Forte