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Paradox, v. 1, issue 1, Summer 1942

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You figure it out. The most recent time-travelling yarns in ASTOUNDING are BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS and RECRUITING STATION. BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS was about the most satisfying and enter-taining science yarn about time travel I've read so far. This plot was along the same lines as the short in Weird [underline] Tales [underline]--except that this one was infinitely more complicated. The hero didn't meet himself once, but many times, and at times there were as three separate editions of the same hero fighting each other--and the villain was the hero after he had aged! BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS rates highly with me. RECRUITING STATION--typically ASTOUNDINGish plot. For a future war, a great war-between-worlds, one of the participants estab-lishes "Recruiting Stations" throughout time, gathering fighting men from many centuries. It was [underline] a little different. It had as a plot a man and woman who both were ensnarled in the toils of the villains, only, as it turned out at the end, the villains were really the nice men. Ending is a little confused for me. Apparently girl is taken back to the time when she first met the recruiting officer for her "district." Just as she is about to drown herself. "Poor, unsuspecting superman!" she thinks as he approaches for what he thinks is their first encounter. Time goes on. Time! Joe Fortier had an interesting article in the January issue of SPACEWAYS. He claims that we are living in the fourth dimension--Time! Time is the fourth. I agree with Fortier. All hail the master. Which brings me to the end of my line. Eh, what? THE END Addenda by ye Ed. There is one point I would like to enlarge upon. That is, the situation of going into Time, coming back to your starting point, repeating the actions of your former trip without realizing it, for an infinite number of times. This might happen an infinite number of times, but it would not go on for an infinite number of years. For example: Draw a line. Take a compass, and intersect that line at a certain point. Call that point "A" From "A" draw an ard that intersects the line at another point. Label this "B." You now have an arc intersecting a line a two points: "A" and "B" Let the line represent time and the arc, the time traveller's course. The beginning of the trip, "A," the end, "B." Now--from "B" the time traveller continues his journy and comes back to A. With your com-pass, you have described a circle. Go over this circle again and again; you are following the lines of the time traveller. Yet always you follow the same course, never advancing along the line. So with the time traveller. He travels over the same circle, but at the very same time he did before. He does not advance with [underline] time, but is stranded at one point of it. he stays in the same rut, repeating his actions over and over again. When the end of the world arrives, he has long since disappeared, his time-travelling a thing of the past.

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You figure it out. The most recent time-travelling yarns in ASTOUNDING are BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS and RECRUITING STATION. BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS was about the most satisfying and enter-taining science yarn about time travel I've read so far. This plot was along the same lines as the short in Weird [underline] Tales [underline]--except that this one was infinitely more complicated. The hero didn't meet himself once, but many times, and at times there were as three separate editions of the same hero fighting each other--and the villain was the hero after he had aged! BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS rates highly with me. RECRUITING STATION--typically ASTOUNDINGish plot. For a future war, a great war-between-worlds, one of the participants estab-lishes "Recruiting Stations" throughout time, gathering fighting men from many centuries. It was [underline] a little different. It had as a plot a man and woman who both were ensnarled in the toils of the villains, only, as it turned out at the end, the villains were really the nice men. Ending is a little confused for me. Apparently girl is taken back to the time when she first met the recruiting officer for her "district." Just as she is about to drown herself. "Poor, unsuspecting superman!" she thinks as he approaches for what he thinks is their first encounter. Time goes on. Time! Joe Fortier had an interesting article in the January issue of SPACEWAYS. He claims that we are living in the fourth dimension--Time! Time is the fourth. I agree with Fortier. All hail the master. Which brings me to the end of my line. Eh, what? THE END Addenda by ye Ed. There is one point I would like to enlarge upon. That is, the situation of going into Time, coming back to your starting point, repeating the actions of your former trip without realizing it, for an infinite number of times. This might happen an infinite number of times, but it would not go on for an infinite number of years. For example: Draw a line. Take a compass, and intersect that line at a certain point. Call that point "A" From "A" draw an ard that intersects the line at another point. Label this "B." You now have an arc intersecting a line a two points: "A" and "B" Let the line represent time and the arc, the time traveller's course. The beginning of the trip, "A," the end, "B." Now--from "B" the time traveller continues his journy and comes back to A. With your com-pass, you have described a circle. Go over this circle again and again; you are following the lines of the time traveller. Yet always you follow the same course, never advancing along the line. So with the time traveller. He travels over the same circle, but at the very same time he did before. He does not advance with [underline] time, but is stranded at one point of it. he stays in the same rut, repeating his actions over and over again. When the end of the world arrives, he has long since disappeared, his time-travelling a thing of the past.