So, here's a minor mystery. I skimmed through all these stories, including the ones I'd never read before.
But there's one I'm not finding. I could have sworn there was one where they meet a kid in the past in their town, then in their present, he, now a much older adult, sees them, realizes they haven't aged, and deduces that they must have a time machine, and then, becomes a bit of an obsessed antagonist.
Now, the 2nd story, "The Time Machine Flies Backwards", has elements of this... they do meet a kid in 1910, but in 1960, when they visit his restaurant, he references a weird dream he had as a kid where he went to the future.
But that's all there is to it. He doesn't become a villain.
Now, it's possible this story was expanded when it made it to book form, but as a kid I only read TIME MACHINE TO THE RESCUE, not MUTINY IN THE TIME MACHINE, and it seems like if it made it into a book, it would have made it into the earlier MUTINY.
Of course, it's also very possible I'm just mistaken, and/or mistaking it somehow with elements of some non-Time Machine short story I read, etc.
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Date: 2010-09-26 10:20 am (UTC)But there's one I'm not finding. I could have sworn there was one where they meet a kid in the past in their town, then in their present, he, now a much older adult, sees them, realizes they haven't aged, and deduces that they must have a time machine, and then, becomes a bit of an obsessed antagonist.
Now, the 2nd story, "The Time Machine Flies Backwards", has elements of this... they do meet a kid in 1910, but in 1960, when they visit his restaurant, he references a weird dream he had as a kid where he went to the future.
But that's all there is to it. He doesn't become a villain.
Now, it's possible this story was expanded when it made it to book form, but as a kid I only read TIME MACHINE TO THE RESCUE, not MUTINY IN THE TIME MACHINE, and it seems like if it made it into a book, it would have made it into the earlier MUTINY.
Of course, it's also very possible I'm just mistaken, and/or mistaking it somehow with elements of some non-Time Machine short story I read, etc.