R. R. Winterbotham 23 min read

No one alive today has seen a living horse; the creature went extinct around the year 2800. But the secret of time travel has been found, and men of the future may yet ride horseback.

R. R. Winterbotham's 1940 story frames its time-travel tale with a wistful reflection on extinction and the coming conquest of time. Thoughtful, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a story that promises to reach back across the ages and touch what the world has lost.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Jack Binder