Ray Cummings 3 hr 46 min read

'Time is what keeps everything from happening at once,' jokes George, but the inventor Rogers has more than a definition: a project to master time itself, and a wonder to show his friends.

Ray Cummings's 1929 novel is a rousing hard-SF and time-travel adventure. Vivid, romantic golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful companion to Cummings's famous 'Girl in the Golden Atom', a time machine, a journey through the ages, and a daring rescue, in the wonder-struck, fast-moving pulp style of a founding master of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Ed Valigursky