Stanton A. Coblentz 11 min read

A chemist's 'Release Drug' frees his psychic self from his body, and hurls him forward through time into a strange, ghastly, revealing future no man was meant to see.

Stanton A. Coblentz's 1950 story sends its narrator on an out-of-body voyage into a post-apocalyptic tomorrow. Imaginative, satirical golden-age SF. Read it for a vivid time-travel tale where a laboratory accident opens onto the far and disquieting shape of things to come.

In its time

Published in 1950, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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