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A chemist, a radio engineer, and a beautiful young woman appear to be the only people in the world who have survived a strange attack or epidemic that has stopped humanity in its tracks. It appears that human beings' sense of time has been obliterated, causing everyone to lapse into a deep trance-like state. Can the surviving trio figure out what's happening and reverse it before it's too late?

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 juin 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776538966
Langue	English

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THE END OF TIME

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WALLACE WEST

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The End of Time

By millions of millions the creatures of earth slow and drop when their time-sense is mysteriously paralyzed.

"There is no doubt of it!" The little chemist pushed steel-bowed spectacles up on his high forehead and peered at his dinner guest with excited blue eyes. "Time will come to an end at six o'clock this morning."

Jack Baron, young radio engineer at the Rothafel Radio laboratories, and protégé of Dr. Manthis, his host, laughed heartily.

"What a yarn you spin, Doctor," he said. "Write it for the movies."

"But it's true," insisted the older man. "Something is paralyzing our time-sense. The final stroke will occur about daybreak."

"Bosh! You mean the earth will stop rotating, the stars blink out?"

"Not at all. Such things have nothing to do with time. You may know your short waves, but your general education has been sadly neglected." The scientist picked up a weighty volume. "Maybe this will explain what I mean. It's from Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason.' Listen:

'Time is not something which subsists of itself, or which inheres in things as an objective determination, and therefore, remains, when abstraction is made of the