Ralph Williams 48 min read

George Dolan has four problems: a time-translator, an out-of-this-world girl named Moirta, the gun runners, and his life, and even his victory lies at the far end of a bridge ten thousand years long.

Ralph Williams's 1954 story is a rousing adventure and time-travel tale. Vivid, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a fast-moving story where arms smugglers from the far future raid the twentieth century for weapons, and one man is caught between eras in a fight across a hundred centuries.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Paul Orban