Edmond Hamilton 21 min read

Jean de Marselait, Inquisitor Extraordinary of the King of France, orders the fettered prisoner brought before him, a man who vanished from a Paris street and returned with an impossible tale.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story is a clever hard-SF and time-travel tale framed as a medieval inquisition. Sharp, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for an early Hamilton gem where a fifteenth-century man is snatched into the modern world and back, and stands trial for sorcery over the wonders he claims to have seen.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey