Joseph Farrell 15 min read

'My mother warned me,' Marilyn says, 'to think twice before I married a child prodigy.' But her husband has something better than any nest egg, a time machine, and the future investing in him.

Joseph Farrell's 1959 story is a light, charming social-SF and time-travel tale of an inventor and his patient wife. Warm, witty golden-age SF. Read it for a genial domestic comedy where a struggling tinkerer's homemade time machine promises a security no ordinary savings could buy.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood