Ed Earl Repp 28 min read

All Dave Miller wanted was to shoot himself in peace, but after he pulled the trigger, everything went wrong: no pearly gate, no halos, just everyone frozen around him like statues.

Ed Earl Repp's 1940 story is a lively hard-SF and time-travel tale with a wry premise. Fun, inventive golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial story where a would-be suicide finds time itself has stopped dead, leaving him the only moving man in a motionless world, and a second chance he never bargained for.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Tom Beecham