Time Haven
by Howard Wandrei
Vincent Merryfield, the “alien” of his family for the sin of being a scientist,
builds a time machine that takes him to the year 2443 where the rest of his family has
died out and he is the sole owner of everything within sight of his seven-mile-high tower
in Manhattan—but how did everyone know he was coming? Sadly, it may be that he never
really traveled through time, but I had to put artist and writer Howard Wandrei into my
list nonetheless. A later story, “The Missing Ocean” (May 1939), follows much the
same time-travelless plot.
Of course! It has always been known that you would ‘appear’ sooner or later.
“Time Haven” by Howard Wandrei, Astounding, September 1934.