A Traveler in Time and Other Short Stories - August Derleth - Bog

A journey in time... or a journey into our psyche? This collection of six short stories spanning from the 1890's to to 1950's shows just how various authors have used the vehicle of time travel as a mirror to ourselves. Running away to the past, escaping from the present, avoiding a future, even a print shop manager using time travel to speed up letterpress type setting!Each story a sign of its own time, yet many common threads are revealed in this span of sixty years of science fiction stories. Includes "A Traveler in Time" by August Derleth; "Nine Men in Time" by Noel Loomis; "The Thief of Time" by Capt. S. P. Meek; "The Man from 2071" by Sewell Peaslee Wright; "The Man from Time" by Frank Belknap Long; and the seminal "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.