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Extempore (short story)

Field	Value
name	Extempore
author	Damon Knight
country	United States
language	English
genre	Science fiction
publication_type	Periodical
published_in	Infinity Science Fiction
publisher	Royal Publications Incorporated
media_type	Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
pub_date	August 1956

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the short story by Damon Knight

"Extempore" (alternate title "The Beach Where Time Began") is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the August 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction and has been reprinted twice, in Far Out (1961) and The Best of Damon Knight (1976).

Synopsis

Albert Rossi, a New York dishwasher, learns to travel through time. Once started, he continues at an accelerated pace, continuing until the end of time and then starting over. By an effort of will he manages to stop at a "scarlet beach with its golden laughing people". But he is now frozen in time forever and appears to the beachcombers as a rock-hard, immobile statue.

Background

About this story, Knight wrote

Here is another of my time stories, put together out of bits and pieces of Far Rockaway, Milne, Einstein, etc. (I don't see why the speculations of modern physicists shouldn't be used as incantations.) I don't think "Extempore" is terribly probable, but see for yourself.

References

de:Extempore fi:Ex tempore

References

[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/s140.htm#BOT Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections]
[[Damon Knight. Knight, Damon]] (1976), ''[https://openlibrary.org/b/OL23266177M/The_best_of_Damon_Knight. The Best of Damon Knight]'', Nelson Doubleday, New York

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