Flight Through Tomorrow

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Flight Through Tomorrow

by Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz

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Super warfare has destroyed the old race of man, but elsewhere a new civilization is dawning....

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Description

A brilliant but obsessive chemist at a top‑secret research foundation has spent his career trying to separate the mind from the body. His latest experiment yields a mysterious compound—called Relin—that promises a temporary suspension of physical limits. Driven by curiosity and a hunger for discovery, he swallows a daring dose, fully aware that the line between genius and madness is razor‑thin.

The drug works, and his consciousness is thrust far beyond his modest apartment into a stark, wind‑blown plain scarred by the remnants of a devastating war. Above him, a fiery, comet‑like object streaks across a bruised sky, its roar echoing the sounds of distant, super‑powered weapons. The landscape is alien yet hauntingly familiar, hinting at a fledgling civilization rising from the ashes of humanity’s old world. As he struggles to make sense of the sights and sounds, the listener is pulled into a tense, speculative journey that explores the limits of science, the fragility of civilization, and the awe of venturing into an uncertain tomorrow.

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Language

en

Duration

~18 minutes (17K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2009-03-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz

Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz

1896–1982

Known for imaginative science fiction and fantasy, this prolific American writer also published poetry and criticism across a long literary career. His work often mixed big speculative ideas with a thoughtful, literary touch.

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