[John Grimes: Rim Commodore #1 included 01] • Coils Of Time
- Authors
- Chandler, A. Bertram
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Tags
- science fiction , sci-fi short
- Date
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.16 MB
- Lang
- en
The Coils of Time (128 p.)
Dr. Henshaw had created what he though was a time travel machine and he had sent guinea pigs through it. But now he needed a human guinea pig to test it with.
Christopher Wilkinson thought the whole idea was absurd, until a book that had been sent through the machine came back with a thumb print on it, the fingerprint of Vanessa, his long lost sweetheart!
So Wilkinson agreed to the experiment. He stood in the white circle facing the machine as it began to gleam and spin, pulling him down through the tortuous coils of time....
Into the Alternate Universe (128 p.)
Others called their expedition a "wild ghost chase." But for Space Commodore John Grimes and the beautiful Sonya Verrill who had initiated the project, it was strictly scientific research. Their trip along the rim of the galaxy in search of two men - two dead men - was also an investigation of the long-puzzling phenomenon of the Rim Ghosts. They would do this by penetrating into alternate universes.
There was only one real problem involved in this study - how to report its results. For once the breakthrough to an alternate world was achieved, there was no known way of getting out....