Raymond Z. Gallun 18 min read

Eager to see the girl he loves, Ned Vince swings his rattling car recklessly around Pit Bend, and Death taps him on the shoulder as another car's lights leap blindingly past the up-jutting rock.

Raymond Z. Gallun's 1942 story is a poignant post-apocalyptic and time-travel tale. Vivid, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a young man's fatal crash into ancient stone becomes the threshold to a strange future, and the eternal wall of time proves more porous than anyone dreamed.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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