
Ninon is a woman whose every movement is a performance against the inevitable march of time. She has spent a lifetime perfecting her appearance, dismissing the salon’s gadgets and diets in favor of a single, obscure physics manuscript that claims time itself can be reshaped. With a fierce resolve, she believes she can seize control of aging, turning her own body into a needle that sews through the fabric of years.
When a handsome young astronaut named Robert arrives for an experimental spaceflight, Ninon sees the perfect opportunity to test her theory. Their encounter crackles with both desire and calculation, as she promises allure and enigma while hoping a single voyage beyond Earth will grant her the renewal she craves. The story follows her meticulous plans and the tension between her seasoned cunning and his youthful ambitions, hinting at the profound costs of trying to outwit time itself.
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
2012-10-07
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1906–1975
A mid-century science-fiction writer with a small but memorable body of work, he published inventive stories in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. His best-known piece, Time and the Woman, helped earn him a lasting niche among readers of classic pulp-era SF.
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