Noel M. Loomis 26 min read

Newly in charge of a printing company that's mysteriously losing money despite a healthy business, a young manager is baffled, until he learns the strange truth behind the vanishing profits.

Noel M. Loomis's 1953 story spins a clever hard-SF and time-travel tale from a business mystery. Sharp, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a struggling print-shop's inexplicable losses turn out to have a wonderfully science-fictional cause.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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