Wallace West 42 min read

'Time will come to an end at six o'clock this morning,' the little chemist announces over dinner, and his guest, a young radio engineer, laughs and tells him to write it for the movies.

Wallace West's 1933 story is a lively hard-SF and time-travel tale of an impending cosmic halt. Fun, inventive golden-age pulp. Read it for a story where a scientist's outlandish claim that our very sense of time is failing proves alarmingly real, and daybreak brings the strangest of dawns.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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