E. A. Grosser 25 min read

Time-traveler Valnar, drifting through history, once raised the mental dictator Dodson to power, so this trip, Barlow and Laurine mean to make the careless tourist undo his own catastrophe.

E. A. Grosser's 1941 story is a fast dystopian time-travel tale of altering a tyrant's rise. Sharp, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a story where the meddling of a time-tourist created a menace, and setting it right means sending him back to unmake his own mistake.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte