Randall Garrett 21 min read

Time Patrolman Brek Halliday is in a hell of a jam: the renegade Sagginer has fled into the past with a stolen chronokinetic projector, and unless he's stopped, he'll change history itself.

Randall Garrett's 1957 story is a brisk, clever time-travel adventure. Sharp, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a fast, twisty Time Patrol yarn of a chase through history to stop a fugitive from rewriting the past, full of the paradoxes and quick wits that make classic time-cop SF such fun.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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