The man who mastered timeRay CummingsOmniClassics · Literature
The man who mastered time
Ray CummingsAn accidental glimpse of a frozen future turns a discussion of time into an urgent personal undertaking.
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About the book
Rogers gathers his friends to explain a discovery that challenges their habitual separation of time, space, and matter. Experiments with his son Loto produced a view beyond the laboratory walls, revealing a snowbound landscape where contemporary New York should have stood. The scene was not another place but another age, and Loto's continued interest gives the phenomenon stakes that abstract speculation alone cannot explain. Cummings builds his adventure from the familiar device of a scientific account delivered to skeptical listeners, then opens it toward travel across an immense interval. The future is not assumed to be a simple continuation of technological progress. This Ace Books text carries a 1929 copyright and presents the novel's mixture of speculative exposition, discovery, and personal adventure.
- Time and discovery
- Civilization and change
- Scientific adventure
Why read it
The frozen landscape challenges the expectation that every imagined future must be more advanced than the present.
English text of the Ace Books edition, carrying a 1929 copyright