The Enormous Hourglass Author:ron Goulart The time machine was sitting with his feet up on the desk. Tiny clods of dried mud were dropping from his rippled metallic feet and bouncing onto the desk's control panel. — Sam Brimmer closed the door behind himself and walked across the airfoam flooring of his office. He picked up a lump of mud, rubbing it to dust between thumb and forefinger... more ». "ancient Greece," he decided after sniffing at his fingertips. "Around 300 BC? Have you been time-jumping again, screwing around back there with Aristotle?"
Thus begins one of the funniest science fiction spoofs yet, and private eyes, Greek philosophers, Hollywood starlets--you name it! -- will never be the same.« less