Sidewise in Time Author:Murray Leinster Just one man, mathematician James Minott, predicted the event. A series of rifts in time throw many different time paths together for a two week period. Pleistocene forests invade Fredericksburg, Virginia. Confederate soldiers battle Roman legionnaires. Vikings plunder Maine, and Chinese settlers from the Ming dynasty populate America. M... more »aking his way through the time rifts, Minott and seven hand-picked college students search for a new beginning beyond the upheavals. First published in 1934, Sidewise in Time is one of the great seminal stories of modern science fiction. It introduced the theme of parallel worlds and the mixing of past, present and future that many science fiction writers would work on in numerous variations. The passing years have simply confirmed the still fresh excitement and overall excellence of this important story. This tape also contains The Strange Case of John Kingman, in which we join a doctor of a psychiatric hospital as he studies the records of a patient who is truly "out of this world." Superior story plots and readings are a consistent factor in this audiobook.« less