Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Not very engaging...
...just another time travel/time machine story.Nevertheless entertaining !Would recommend !
Tongue-in-cheek time traveling tale from the curator of Cthulhu.Vanderkamp is a crazy looking crank who lives with his nagging sister. Of Dutch decsent, he has a keen interest in the original New York when it used to be called New Amsterdam, so much so that he built his own time machine to take him back there.I'll give Vanderkamp credit for acknowledging where he got the idea from ('H. G. Wells was there first. I owe it to Wells.'), as well as his model for the machine itself, a spinning top des...
Typical story about an eccentric inventor who invents a time machine and takes it back to 1650 to New Amsterdam. Told from the perspective of a newspaper reporter who is assigned to write the story as a local color piece. He doesn't believe the story, but is hard put to account for the valuable antiques that begin to show up. Not much to recommend except it's a cute way to spend a half hour or so.
Honestly don't know what time traveling will be like, but does it ever seem even remotely possible?
3,5 stars rounded up to 4.
not a bad little time travel story, if a bit generic. thought the little twist at the end was fun but nothing astounding, 2.5 stars!
17/20 32 mins. Part of LibriVox Audiobook “Short SF Collection Vol. 058”. Quite well narrated by Dan Grozinski dg73. I’m a sucker for time traveler stories, this one is not really that great though..
Time (mostly) and space are the objectives of this story. Derleth tells us a story about time travels and he succeeds in this attempt. Elementary scientific knowledge and imagination are all it takes and Derleth is a master of both.
Short, entertaining story
Lowkey evil, I love it.
An adequate story that needs a bit more. Much too close to HG Wells.
Time travel is taken very lightly in this one. Focus is on comedy that is mildly funny.