Miles J. Breuer 29 min read

Driving along the Missouri bluffs, medical student John Hastings looks out at midstream and sees a Roman galley sweeping down the river on three tiers of oars, and wonders if his mind is slipping.

Miles J. Breuer's 1940 story is a clever social-SF and time-travel tale. Sharp, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a story where an impossible vision on an ordinary drive opens onto a puzzle of time and history, told with the thoughtful ingenuity of a fine early SF craftsman.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte