''The Omnibus of Time'' is a collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
short stories by
Ralph Milne Farley
Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General, for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley.
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. It was first published in
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
by
Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,500 copies.
[ISFDB listing]
/ref> An additional 500 copies were bound as a Gnome Press edition and sold through an associated book club. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines '' Top-Notch'', '' Amazing Stories'', ''Thrilling Wonder Stories
''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stor ...
'', '' Weird Tales'', '' Argosy'', ''Fantasy Book'' and ''Science Fiction Digest''.
Contents
* "The Man Who Met Himself"
* "Time for Sale"
* "Rescue Into the Past"
* "The Immortality of Alan Whidden"
* "The Time-Wise Guy"
* "A Month a Minute"
* "The Invisible Bomber"
* "The Time Traveller"
* "I Killed Hitler"
* "The Radio War" (excerpt)
* "The Golden City" (excerpt)
* "The Hidden Universe" (excerpt)
* "Stranded in Time"
* "The Man Who Lived Backwards"
* "The Revenge of the Great White Lodge"
* "The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock"
* "The End of the World"
* "After Math" (essay)
Farley revised stories to eliminate "many mathematico-physical footnotes", which he compiled and rewrote as "After Math", presenting "the various scientific theories of time, and compar ngall my own various inconsistent theories and techniques". While "The Golden City" was described as excerpted from a soon-to-be published novel, the full-length work did not appear until 2006.[
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Reception
''New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' reviewer Basil Davenport Basil Davenport (1905-1966) was an American literary critic, academic, anthologist, and writer of science fiction novels and other genres. He was a member of the Baker Street Irregulars literary society. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March ...
reported that "Readers who enjoy mathematical paradoxes, as well as those who enjoy science fiction, will find this good entertainment."["In the Realm of the Spacemen: Time Is a Dream", '']The New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
'', July 2, 1950
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1950 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. books