Robert Arthur, Jr.

writer
Short Story

Theft of the Washington Monument

In order to exact revenge for the ridicule that his theories on time have endured, Professor Green decide to transport the Washington Monument to the future for a few days, and in the process, they see the eventual fate of our planet.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Don’t Be a Goose

In the third of Murchison Morks’ tall tales at the gentlemen’s club, he tells of mathematics professor Alexander Peabody who discovers an equation that, if concentrated upon firmly, projects him back into the body of a goose at the time of a Celtic attack on Rome.
He was sure it would work. But when he confided his dreams to his sister Martha, she, woman-like, merely sniffed. She called him a goose.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Time Dredge

I haven’t yet read this story which appeared only in Astounding, but Jamie Todd Rubin writes that the story is of two men who seek a German professor who plans to pull things out of ancient South America to help the Germany win World War II.
The German professor had a nice idea for making archeology a branch of Blitzkrieg technique—with the aid of a little tinkering with Time.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Wheel of Time

Decades before that other Robert wrote of his Wheel of Time, Robert Arthur gave us this story of his recurring mad scientist Jeremiah Jupiter and his long-suffering assistant Lucius. This time, Jupiter plans to create a time machine from oranges, The Encyclopedia Britannica, bass drums, tiny motorcycles, and three trained chimps.
I am going to set up an interference in the time rhythm at this particular spot. Then the chimpanzies will enter it with my time capsules—since I know you won’t—and they will deposit the capules here a million years ago!
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel