Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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STRANGER IN TIME going back a little further to retaliate? Or is that an im- possible paradox?” “Susan, there was only one surprise attack like that, and that was the enemy’s.”’ “Why _ 9 *“Because the enemy had set up time-blocks. Both sides did, as a matter of fact.” “Time-blocks ?”’ “Yes. It amounts to a blockade in time. An etheric vibration broadcast from many planets simultaneously. It is absolutely impossible for any ship to travel through a certain point in time within the limits of this Universe. The effect on the engines is such that the ship would be hurled straight out of our space and time, into the unknown.” “Then how did the first fleet take you by surprise?’ “By slipping into a conter- minous universe with a dif- ferent time-dimension to ours. We did the same when we came back into the past.” His face grew grim. “It was pretty hellish; we have never fully mastered the method, and we lost nearly half our ships in transition. But it was 35 necessary for us to attack in the past, or the enemy’s war-potential would have been so colossal that he would have practically won the war with the initial blow.” *“So——” Susan’s mind groped after the ideas she was trying to seize. ““———you came back into the past in order to fight a war which had not yet started. And since the time- block is there in time, you have no chance at all of ever passing back into the future and finding out which side is going to win the war, unless you can get back to your own time the way you came—by slipping into regions of space and time outside our universe.”’ “That’s right,” Dinton agreed. “It’s all rather chaotic.”’ “Yes,” Susan agreed, dazedly. “Very chaotic. And now we are doing just that— travelling in regions of space and time which are not ours.” **Slipping across them might be more exact. And until we reach a point where the mechanism of the ship can obtain a purchase, we shall continue to slip. Rather as connicloooks.corn