The Third Time Travel MEGAPACK ®: 18 Classic Trips Through Time by Philip K. Dick & Lester del Rey & Richard Wilson & Mack Reynolds & H.B. Fyfe

Author:Philip K. Dick & Lester del Rey & Richard Wilson & Mack Reynolds & H.B. Fyfe [Dick, Philip K.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: science fiction, travel, time, short stories, classic
ISBN: 9781479406227
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

“Does that hint at some explanation?”

I frowned horribly. “Not much.” Although the whole thing was beginning to give me a headache, I let him go on with his story.

“Professor Leyton’s machine transcends this three-dimensional fallacy regarding Time, and continues the ancestral thread to its ultimate end.

“My glimpses of the future were far briefer, more blurred and difficult than any past images. In this it may be said that Professor Leyton’s machine was defective.

“My moment in my son’s mind occurred in a lecture room of a large University. He was propounding a new and revolutionary theory, the very theory that I have since been completing, proving. And he was being ridiculed, scoffed at, laughed out of the auditorium.

“This was the result, I guessed, of his lifetime of arduous effort in science. It is my belief that he died a broken and unhappy man. Will die, you might say!

“He left a daughter, a weakly creature who lived only long enough to give birth to a son who carried on the ancestral thread…

“It was my great-grandson whose mind gave me a glorious thrilling glimpse that was the high-point of high-points in my travels up and down the ancestral thread of memory.

“He was an old, old man. He stood, still strong and tall and beautiful, on a glass-like precipice that lipped a skyscraper cliff of the radiant and incredible city of the world of Tomorrow. He stood gazing introspectively down at the leisurely flow of life, both above and below him.

Aircraft of feather lightness and breathtaking design sailed smoothly and silently on their accurate designated courses. Far below, on gardened streets, pedestrians strolled on marbled ramps, while on other levels ground vehicles moved, like the aircraft, swiftly, silently, smoothly.

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