The Beast Author:A. E. Van Vogt The time machine had brought together a strange assortment of people from many different centuries and left them at the mercy of the strongest - a brutal, primitive half-man, half-animal. Jim Pendrake was caught up in the machine, and began a frantic chase that carried him to the ends of the earth and beyond... to a world where, he learned, anot... more »her of the Oaf's prisoners was a woman named Eleanor - Pendrake's wife.« less