Of Time and Texas

In 2057, the world’s overpopulation crisis has defeated every conventional solution. Enter Professor C. Cydwick Ohms, an eccentric inventor who claims his gleaming “Time Door” can transport people back exactly one hundred years—to the wide-open spaces of Texas in 1957. Best of all, he assures a skeptical press corps, the passage is strictly one-way.

Dressed like a flamboyant frontier showman, Ohms steps through the doorway expecting to make history. Instead, he finds himself facing an impenetrable gray barrier, apparently trapped on the wrong side of his own grand solution. Then the door begins to rumble, and distant yips and thunderous hoofbeats grow louder by the second.

What follows is a brisk, offbeat collision of futuristic schemes, old-fashioned Texas, and the unpredictable hazards of meddling with time. With its wry dialogue and escalating absurdity, this science-fiction adventure invites listeners to discover what happens when a supposedly foolproof answer opens onto something far less manageable.