
THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME - RAY CUMMINGS - ACE BOOKS - A Division of A. A. Wyn, Inc. 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, N. Y. - THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME - Copyright, 1929, by Ray Cummings An Ace Book, by arrangement with the author. - To Gabrielle Who has given me affectionate assistance for a long, long time. - Printed in U. S. A.
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
In a modest conference room, a handful of businessmen, doctors, and a chemist gather around a charismatic speaker named Rogers, who insists that time is not a separate backdrop but an integral property of space and matter. He challenges their comfortable assumptions with a simple, almost playful analogy—a house must have length, breadth, thickness, and duration to exist—drawing them into a fresh, unsettling view of reality. The dialogue crackles as each man wrestles with the idea that motion, too, is the simultaneous shift of both position and moment. Their skepticism fuels a charged atmosphere, setting the stage for something far beyond ordinary scientific debate.
Rogers promises a groundbreaking project that could rewrite humanity’s relationship with chronology itself, and the assembled group finds themselves torn between curiosity and dread. As he outlines a daring experiment that blurs the line between past and present, the stakes rise, hinting at consequences that could ripple through their personal lives and the world at large. Listeners are drawn into a tense, intellectually driven adventure that asks what would happen if we could truly master the flow of time.
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (313K characters)
Release date
Jul 14, 2025
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1887–1957
A lively early science-fiction pioneer, he helped shape the fast-moving, idea-driven style of the pulp era. His stories often mixed romance, danger, and wild scientific speculation, from microscopic worlds to journeys beyond the stars.
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