Editor(s): Groff Cronklin
Publisher: Vanguard (USA)
Publication Date: 1953
Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension 1953
Short Story
The author of this upsetting little tale is an officer in the British merchant marine (which is why his maritime detail is so real) and a writer of first-rate science fiction. Occasionally, when he turns to sinister fantasy of this sort, he uses the pseudonym of "George Whitley" which is the name under which "Castaway" was originally published. His own name is used by permission.
Here, far from trying to avoid or solve the great time-travel paradox. Mr. Chandler throws his hero into its very vortex to let him either sink in it or swim out of it. The startling thing about this story is that, by the very logic of the situation, he does neither...
(The story is not included in the Grayson or Berkley editions)