Sylvia Jacobs 20 min read

Racketeer Slick Tennant, sensing the Feds closing in, plans to hide where even they can't reach him, in the future, by coercing the inventor of a time-travel machine through the man's young son.

Sylvia Jacobs's 1960 story is a sharp social-SF and time-travel tale. Clever, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a taut crime-and-time story where a ruthless gangster schemes to escape justice by fleeing into tomorrow, only to discover the future exacts its own kind of payment, in a well-turned golden-age piece with a satisfying twist.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bob Ritter