Basil Wells 23 min read

Three million years hence, a dying red Sol is swarmed by thousands of tiny artificial worlds, and Earth swings close to its molten primary, where a crew in the Time Bubble makes its first stop.

Basil Wells's 1947 story is a vivid alternate-history and time-travel space opera ranging across deep time. Imaginative, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a sweeping tale of far-future explorers voyaging through the ages, and the transformed solar system they find waiting at the end of time.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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