Eccentric millionaire with a dreamy disposition and impractical leanings, and something of a joker, travels to a far-off world in the two-fold labyrinth of time and space via a spherical, transparent time machine. With his man-servant Li Wong (a very unfortunate racist caricature), they journey first to 20,000 years in the future where they find the Earth and solar system nonexistent (quite accurately in terms of astrophysics, as we are always in motion within the cosmic drift of the universe). By traveling further into the future more carefully, Malgraff lands his timeship on an alien planet populated by dangerous plant-life, where he rescues a native before they are all obliterated by a disc-shaped craft. Many adventures follow. “Still we went on along the ages. On the far-off, receding earth, as well as on other planets, whole civilizations had evolved and elapsed and been forgotten, and many historical epochs and geological eras had gone by. Moons and worlds and even great suns had been destroyed. Traveling down their eternal orbits, the very constellations had all shifted their stances amid the infinite… Strangest of all was the the thought that the world I had known was lost not only in sidereal immensity, but in the rayless night of a remote antiquity!
Description Eccentric millionaire with a dreamy disposition and impractical leanings, and something of a joker, travels to a far-off world in the two-fold labyrinth of time and space via a spherical, transparent time machine. With his man-servant Li Wong (a very unfortunate racist caricature), they journey first to 20,000 years in the future where they find the Earth and solar system nonexistent (quite accurately in terms of astrophysics, as we are always in motion within the cosmic drift of the universe). By traveling further into the future more carefully, Malgraff lands his timeship on an alien planet populated by dangerous plant-life, where he rescues a native before they are all obliterated by a disc-shaped craft. Many adventures follow. “Still we went on along the ages. On the far-off, receding earth, as well as on other planets, whole civilizations had evolved and elapsed and been forgotten, and many historical epochs and geological eras had gone by. Moons and worlds and even great suns had been destroyed. Traveling down their eternal orbits, the very constellations had all shifted their stances amid the infinite… Strangest of all was the the thought that the world I had known was lost not only in sidereal immensity, but in the rayless night of a remote antiquity!
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Flight Into Super-Time in Wonder Stories (August 1932) | Frank R. Paul
