Flight From Tomorrow: A Positronic Book - Hardcover

by H. Beam Piper (Author)

Flight From Tomorrow is a taut early science fiction adventure by H. Beam Piper, built around time travel, political collapse, and the terrible risks of trying to escape history. A defeated ruler flees the ruins of his own future through a desperate leap into the past, expecting refuge, safety, and the chance to rebuild power. Instead, he finds himself stranded in a dangerous world whose customs, weapons, and assumptions are far less primitive than he imagined, and where survival depends on more than force, arrogance, or the machinery that carried him there.

First published in 1950, this fast-moving novelette shows Piper already working with themes that would recur throughout his fiction: historical cycles, the fall of regimes, the limits of authority, the danger of overconfidence, and the collision between technology and human nature. Compact, sharp, and unmistakably pulp in energy, Flight From Tomorrow will appeal to readers of Golden Age science fiction, classic time travel stories, political science fiction, pulp adventure, and the early work of the author of Little Fuzzy, Space Viking, and the Terro-Human Future History stories. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.