Ray Cummings 18 min read

'How can you know time travel has never been done?' asks the chemist, for perhaps the visions of history, from Joan of Arc to the Angel of Mons, were travelers from our own future, briefly glimpsed.

Ray Cummings's 1942 story spins an ingenious time-travel tale from a dinner-table debate and a bold hypothesis. Clever, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a story that reimagines history's miracles and apparitions as travelers slipping through time.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John B. Musacchia