Neil R. Jones 37 min read

Knowing he must die, Professor Jameson has his body rocketed into orbit to be preserved by the cold of space, and forty million years later, long after mankind is gone, an alien race finds him.

Neil R. Jones's 1931 story launched the beloved Professor Jameson series and helped inspire Asimov's robots. Visionary, imaginative, historically vital. Read it for a foundational tale of deep time and machine intelligence, a dead man revived by the cyborg Zoromes in the far future of a dying Earth, in a landmark of early SF.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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