Anachronism
- by Charles Cloukey
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Anachronism” by Charles Cloukey, Amazing Stories, December 1930.
When time-traveler Crandell Sherman returns to 1929 after winning the third Martio-Tellurian War in 2930, a crazed Martian spy chases him and begins plotting revenge.
—L. Percival
Somewhere in Philadelphia, this minute, is an incredible anachronism, an intelligence from the Mars, one that will exist a thousand years from now. And he is planning death.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: Most of the story takes place in the modern era (that is, around 1929).
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: The antagonist, a Martian spy, follows Sherman to 1929 from 2930.
- Timeline Models
- Simple Visit to the Future: Sherman travels to the future, wins a war, and then returns.
- Unexplained Timeline Model: Sherman goes to the future and returns, but the story never explains if you can change the past with time travel.
- Time Travel Methods
- Generic Time Machine: Dr. Endicott Hawkinson made a machine that made possible travel through the fourth-dimension.
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Sherman goes to the future and returns. There is no explicit explanation of how he travels.
- Themes
- Anachronistic Time Travelers: The main characters mention several times that the Martian spy is a “living anachronism,” stuck outside of the time period he is used to.
- Chases through Time
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Aliens: Martians
- Future Wars: Sherman wins a war in the future.
- Groupings
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- “Anachronism” by Charles Cloukey, Amazing Stories, December 1930.