Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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STRANGER IN TIME be kept prisoner before being sent back to their own time, while the fear persisted in the back of her mind that their captors had no intention of releasing them. She glanced up sharply as the door of the craft slid back. A dim light seeped into the interior. Possibly dawn or dusk, she thought, and wondered what year they had arrived at. Somehow her mind seemed to have accepted the fact of time travel without much difficulty, possibly because she could not understand it. She followed the others out of the machine, and stared around her.. The little fleet of machines was scattered over the surface of a wide square surrounded by buildings; low, single storey structures. Susan was re- minded of army huts. The air was chilly, and the ground, which appeared to be of concrete, was covered with a thin layer of grey dust. She was breathing fast, and had a sudden feeling that the air was thin. Then she realised that for all the weakness of the light; it came from above, 19 and she glanced up. A puzzled. look appeared on her face. The sky above was a dull dirty-looking yellow. Instead of a sharply defined sun, she saw three blurred discs of light, which might have been suns seen through a haze. “IT told you.’ The voice behind her had a touch of © impatience in it. “A spatio- temporal shift. We move in time and space.” Panic swept over Susan as she grasped the meaning of his words. She glanced wildly around her as though seeking a refuge. “Make your way to that hut over there. Ill send your husband and the other man over to you as soon as we have released them from the hypnosis.” Susan slowly made her way to the hut indicated. Her mind | was trying to grasp the truth: that they had travelled not only in time, but in space as well; that she was on an alien planet at an unknown distance from the Earth. | The two men joined her in the hut some twenty minutes later. comiclbooks.coin ~