In this sequel to 1903’s
A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight Through Time,
Lumley has returned to his own time and is held responsible for Kelpie’s disappearance at
which point he returns to the future and adventures ensue.
I wish that today’s story
magazines sported such alluring artwork. Not only that, but in October of 1912, for just
30¢ you could have bought this issue of The Argosy as well as the first-ever
story of Tarzan of the Apes in Argosy’s sister magazine, The All-Story. And
today, instead, we get endless reality TV, including Castaway 2000.
Put me out of my
misery if I ever start sounding curmudgeonly.
— Michael Main
Dr. Alonzo Kelpie, author of “Time and Space and Their Limitations,” was a hunchback.
Although a small man physically, intellectually he was a giant. To have him emerge thus
unexpectedly through the dissolving mists of their environment was a seven-day wonder to
Lumley, Kinch, McWilliams, Mortimer, and Ripley.