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The Man Who Saw the Future
Edmond Hamilton
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An assistant apothecary in 1444 Paris is investigating mysterious thunderclaps in a field, when he is plucked from his time and deposited in the miraculous world of the future.
An assistant apothecary in 1444 Paris is investigating mysterious thunderclaps in a field, when he is plucked from his time and deposited in the miraculous world of the future.
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"I had sought to know the nature of the lightning, and the manner of flight of the birds, and the way in which fishes are able to live beneath the waters, and the mystery of the stars. So when these thunderclaps began to be heard in the part of Paris in which I lived, I did not fear them so much as my neighbors. I was eager to learn only what was causing them, for it seemed to me that their cause might be learned.
"So I began to go to that field from which they issued, to study them. I waited in it and twice I heard the great thunderclaps myself. I thought they came from near the field's center, and I studied that place. But I could see nothing there that was causing them. I dug in the ground, I looked up for hours into the sky, but there was nothing. And still, at intervals, the thunderclaps sounded.
"I still kept going to . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
“But tush--enough of these crazy fancies. They will have me for a sorcerer if I yield to these wild fancies and visions of the future."
-- Well.. That's the story in a nutshell..
The oft-used plot,with a simple presentation,it's a good read for few minutes. You get the whole wonder of 'the time machi
-Who wouldn’t??
Who wouldn’t like to see the future? Take a peep at a screen, or enchanted crystal-ball, to have a glimpse of the shape of things yet to come?
This was a story (Hamilton's) I read and heard about while at the same time I was getting to read other future & past-concerned stories.
One (a
A quite common premise but an enjoyable read. A French man from 1444 gets unwittingly taken to the future by two Parisian men in 1944 (story was written in 1930). Hamilton is quite optimistic in how he thinks technology will be in only 14 years time, with flying cars, etc. And of course, the actual
Quaint but pointless
No real story here. Just a medieval person describing the far future of 1944. It provides an amusingly quaint glimpse of an imagined retro future and is a very quick read.
Good story. Sad but realistic ending.
Time travel as described is not possible unless multiple parallel universes exist; I think they don't.
The sorcerer could have saved himself just as the time travelers did, by bringing some proof back.
Objectify man.