DIY History | Transcribe | Hevelin Fanzines | Paradox, v. 1, issue 2, Fall 1942

Transcribe
Translate

Paradox, v. 1, issue 2, Fall 1942

Page 10

10                                          PARADOX

                      FORTUNE 
                        in the 
                      FUTURE
                        by
                   Henry A. Ackermann

   There was only one thing Bruce Balland was sure about, and that was the way he was going to make his fortune.
   As he paused for a brief moment to stare at his haggard face in the mirror, his thoughts went back to the years gone by. They were lean, hard years. But then, he had always been trampled underfoot during his whole twenty-five years of existence, ever since he had come into the world inside a drab room of a cheap and equally drab boarding house. The breaks had been against him.....
   Just once had he been lucky. And that only because of his own mental brilliance. He had passed high school and it had seemed his scholastic duties were through when, because of the kind interest and activity of one, Professor Mitchell, teacher of Physics at the high school, he was recommended for the Cameron Scholarship. This scholarship was for one who appeared promising in the field of science and who lacked the funds to continue his studies. Of course, he had won the scholarship.....
    That had been when he was fifteen. Now he was a graduate of two technical and scientific institutions and for the past two years had been teaching Mathematics in the very same high school that he had graduated from.
   He forgot his past, though, as he contemplated his Time-Radio.
   Yes! There it was, a complicated maze of silver wires and intricate condensers. Above it, on the wall of the laboratory, hung a glistening, mirror-like screen.
   Time had always intrigued him. Bruce believed that Time was but a fourth dimension of Space, why not then create a machine, a radio, that would force its way through the fourth dimension as well? Such a radio could show past and future happenings. Balland wasn't interested in the cob-webby corridors of the past. The future was what he was interested in!
   His machine had been built on the theory, backed by scattered clues here and there, that everything that had ever happened or will happen sets or will set up Time-vibrations at the place where the event occurred or will occur.

Saving...

10 PARADOX FORTUNE in the FUTURE by Henry A. Ackermann There was only one thing Bruce Balland was sure about, and that was the way he was going to make his fortune. As he paused for a brief moment to stare at his haggard face in the mirror, his thoughts went back to the years gone by. They were lean, hard years. But then, he had always been trampled underfoot during his whole twenty-five years of existence, ever since he had come into the world inside a drab room of a cheap and equally drab boarding house. The breaks had been against him..... Just once had he been lucky. And that only because of his own mental brilliance. He had passed high school and it had seemed his scholastic duties were through when, because of the kind interest and activity of one, Professor Mitchell, teacher of Physics at the high school, he was recommended for the Cameron Scholarship. This scholarship was for one who appeared promising in the field of science and who lacked the funds to continue his studies. Of course, he had won the scholarship..... That had been when he was fifteen. Now he was a graduate of two technical and scientific institutions and for the past two years had been teaching Mathematics in the very same high school that he had graduated from. He forgot his past, though, as he contemplated his Time-Radio. Yes! There it was, a complicated maze of silver wires and intricate condensers. Above it, on the wall of the laboratory, hung a glistening, mirror-like screen. Time had always intrigued him. Bruce believed that Time was but a fourth dimension of Space, why not then create a machine, a radio, that would force its way through the fourth dimension as well? Such a radio could show past and future happenings. Balland wasn't interested in the cob-webby corridors of the past. The future was what he was interested in! His machine had been built on the theory, backed by scattered clues here and there, that everything that had ever happened or will happen sets or will set up Time-vibrations at the place where the event occurred or will occur.