Project Gutenberg 2010-10-18 Public domain in the USA. 79 Loomis, Noel M. 1905 1969 Loomis, Noel Miller Miller, Benj. Water, Silas Nine Men in Time Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Nine Men in Time" by Noel M. Loomis is a science fiction story written during the early 1950s. This narrative explores the themes of ambition, innovation, and the consequences of meddling with time and identity in a printing company setting. The plot revolves around a unique concept where a production manager attempts to save his struggling printing plant by employing a method of time travel and duplication to meet a pressing deadline. The story follows J.J. Shane, the manager of the Imperial Printing Company, who is faced with the potential closure of the plant due to underperformance. In collaboration with Dr. Hudson, an experimental physicist, they devise a way to send workers back in time to redo their tasks, which leads to a remarkable, albeit chaotic, outcome when High-Pockets Jones, an unusual, towering employee, volunteers for a duplication experiment. This process results in the creation of multiple High-Pocketses, creating a comedic and chaotic dynamic in the workplace. As the narrative unfolds, Shane's ambition to utilize this groundbreaking technology to save the company spirals into complexity and confusion, culminating in a moral dilemma over the implications of their time-altering technology. Eventually, the story resolves with the characters finding a way to fix the chaos, underlying the risks of tampering with time and the importance of understanding one's limits. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33872/33872-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Time travel -- Fiction Printers -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 62727 62736 2024-09-14T09:14:52.102751 2023-09-15T04:33:58.409732 text/html text/html 59512 2010-10-18T09:18:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 274867 2010-10-18T09:18:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 289523 2024-09-14T09:14:54.207697 application/epub+zip 288616 2024-09-14T09:14:52.614737 application/epub+zip 84126 2024-09-14T09:14:52.348739 application/epub+zip 326344 2024-09-14T09:14:55.643835 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 319137 2024-09-14T09:14:53.944771 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 114964 2022-09-15T12:18:54.853910 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 54516 54421 2024-09-14T09:14:51.949723 2023-09-15T04:33:58.232705 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 54443 2010-10-18T09:18:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20913 2010-10-18T09:18:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19244 2024-09-14T09:14:55.822686 application/rdf+xml 28254 2024-09-14T09:14:52.417746 image/jpeg 4775 2024-09-14T09:14:52.383729 image/jpeg 275508 2024-09-14T09:14:52.115747 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia