Flight From Time
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Description
Alfred Coppel wrote this science fiction story, printed in Planet Stories in the winter of 1949. The hero, Malenson, is a crook who has lived by timing. He steals five million irridium dollars in coin and certificates, boards his ship at the planned instant, and vanishes among the stars. A galaxy, he reasons, is the perfect hiding place, since one man in a small ship is harder to find than one grain of sand on a shore.
The blurb warns where the tale turns: a meteor-smashed clock at first means nothing to a man with all the time in the cosmos. Too late, he learns there can be too much time. Coppel builds the story on that cruel twist of a thief's own element turning against him.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |