L. Major Reynolds 12 min read

Want to see all hell break loose? Just punch a few holes in nothing at all, shove some steel beams through them, and head for the hills, as two men with a small steel box are about to demonstrate.

L. Major Reynolds's 1952 story spins fast, funny hard-SF havoc from an invention that makes holes in space itself. Light, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a romp about a pocket-sized device with world-upending potential, and the chaos it unleashes.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

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