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Reprinted in facsimile format from the printing plates of the First Edition book. What will civilization be like 20,000 years from now? Were it not for the important discovery of Loto Rogers and his father that time, like space, may be traversed, we should still remain in ignorance of the future. Loto succeeded in constructing a machine with which to navigate the future and then he darted two hundred centuries forward in time. War, with deadly new weapons, unknown to this day and age, confronted Loto shortly after his arrival. Because of his scientific knowledge he soon took a leading part in this combat of hate and greed and lust, making his new life one fraught with constant danger. Loto soon lerned that he was living in a time when the romantic and mysterious were commonplace; a time of the unbelievable, often the impossible. He had stepped into a world in which almost anything could happen. And now, all the glamour, all the magic, all the sinister undercurrents of that future world, are revealed in this fast moving, fascinating story of Loto's adventurous life in a civilization 20,000 years from the present.
About the author
Ray Cummings (byname of Raymond King Cummings; 1887 - 1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York City and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine) and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.
