
In this mind‑bending tale, a weary engineer is confronted by a version of himself from thirty years ahead. The future self coaxingly guides him into a cramped, button‑filled capsule that hums with an unfamiliar energy, insisting it is a time‑machine. As the doors seal and a strange fog of nothingness envelops them, the present‑day man must grapple with the surreal reality of existing outside ordinary time and space.
The dialogue crackles with paradox, as the older counterpart explains that even the language of past and future has become tangled. Listeners are drawn into the uneasy mix of scientific wonder and existential unease, feeling the cold press of a field that stops motion yet lets a hand pass through emptiness. With humour and a hint of dread, the story asks what it means to meet yourself and whether knowledge of what’s to come can ever truly change the present.
Language
en
Duration
~27 minutes (26K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2016-01-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1915–1993
A lively early voice in American science fiction, he helped shape the genre both as a writer of fast-moving stories and as an influential editor. His work ranged from robot tales and juvenile adventures to the books that helped define Del Rey’s publishing legacy.
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