
A brilliant, mind‑bending tale opens with a frantic debate between a quirky chemist and a skeptical radio engineer. When the world’s sense of time begins to falter—clocks blur, movements accelerate, and ordinary perception unravels—the two men scramble to understand a phenomenon that threatens to halt the flow of everyday life at the stroke of six.
Their frantic search leads them to a mysterious drug that can restore the lost sense of timing, but its use comes with an urgent deadline. As the clock ticks faster than ever, the characters must decide whether to trust science, philosophy, or their own instincts to keep reality from slipping into a timeless void. The story weaves humor, philosophical musings, and tense laboratory drama into a compelling exploration of how we experience the most fundamental dimension we take for granted.
Language
en
Duration
~55 minutes (53K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-07-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1900–1980
A prolific American pulp writer, he filled the pages of early science fiction magazines with fast-moving stories and vivid ideas. He also wrote mystery and adventure fiction, building a long career across popular magazines of the mid-20th century.
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