Nelson S. Bond 53 min read

In broad daylight, before crowds of students, a physics professor and then a technician vanish into thin air, and a flustered university president comes running to the narrator for help.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story is a wry hard-SF and time-travel comedy. Fun, clever golden-age SF. Read it for the genial return of Bond's backwoods scientific genius, whose homespun wonders now conjure baffling disappearances, in a warm, humorous golden-age piece that keeps finding astonishing science in the most unlikely rural corners.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Julian S. Krupa