Terror Out of Time
by Jack Williamson
Until I started reading 1930s pulps, I didn’t realize how ubiquitous were the scientist
with a beautiful daughter and her adventurous fiancé. This story has Dr. Audrin, his
machine (to project the brain of a present-day man forty million years into the future
and possibly bring another mind back), his beautiful daughter Eve, and her manly fiancé,
Terry Webb. Manly Webb agrees to be the test subject for the machine, much to the dismay
of beautiful Eve.
— Michael Main
I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My
apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been
wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—
“Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.