Project Gutenberg 2012-10-06 Public domain in the USA. 123 Derleth, August 1909 1971 Derleth, August William A Traveler in Time Reading ease score: 84.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "A Traveler in Time" by August Derleth is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. The narrative revolves around themes of time travel, exploring the implications and experiences of a character who invents a machine that allows him to traverse different eras. Derleth’s writing delves into the significance of time as a dimension and the personal consequences of escaping one's current reality. The story centers on Heinrich Vanderkamp, an eccentric inventor who claims to have created a time machine. The protagonist, a journalist, learns about Vanderkamp's travels into the past, particularly to the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in the 1650s. As Vanderkamp interacts with the local woman, Anna Van Tromp, he reflects on his troubled relationship with his sister Julie in the present day. The narrative unfolds to reveal Vanderkamp's ultimate decision to leave his life behind and journey deeper into time, leading to a fateful transformation in the life of his sister when she unexpectedly returns, embodying elements of the past. The story concludes with a twist, emphasizing the lasting effects of their time-traveling escapades. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40953/40953-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Time travel -- Fiction Siblings -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 56636 56641 2024-10-17T09:32:22.299413 2023-09-18T04:16:35.102147 text/html text/html 53011 2012-10-06T06:16:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 193532 2012-10-06T06:16:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 212523 2024-10-17T09:32:24.377394 application/epub+zip 211428 2024-10-17T09:32:22.834408 application/epub+zip 75785 2024-10-17T09:32:22.563386 application/epub+zip 250136 2024-10-17T09:32:25.674400 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242141 2024-10-17T09:32:24.100422 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 106791 2022-09-18T17:41:13.872381 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 48133 48038 2024-10-17T09:32:22.137390 2023-09-18T04:16:34.967140 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 47966 2012-10-06T06:16:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18824 2012-10-06T06:16:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20940 2024-10-17T09:32:25.805375 application/rdf+xml 23556 2024-10-17T09:32:22.626416 image/jpeg 4386 2024-10-17T09:32:22.594388 image/jpeg 195757 2024-10-17T09:32:22.311412 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