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Time travel short story where someone from the past follows the travelers back
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Short story on time travel where, at the end, a primitive follows them back to the present but gets scared of a delivery truck and jumps back through the device.
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Short story on time travel where, at the end, a primitive follows them back to the present but gets scared of a delivery truck and jumps back through the device.
story-identification short-stories time-travel
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Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
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This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
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Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
– DavidW
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This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
– Valorum
6 hours ago
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Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
– DavidW
8 hours ago
1
This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
– Valorum
6 hours ago
3
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Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
– DavidW
8 hours ago
Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
– DavidW
8 hours ago
1
1
This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
– Valorum
6 hours ago
This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
– Valorum
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Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1336457
Two scientists create a time machine, looks like a metal ring standing on edge like a Stargate. In operation it looks like it is a circular rainbow. One scientist tries it, but fails to return. Each scientist has a son who is a teenager, both beg the remaining scientist to let them go back in time to rescue the lost scientist.
They find the scientist back in dinosaur times. Unfortunately a brontosaurus trips over the rainbow ring and causes damage. The scientist in the present sends a letter back through time saying the time machine was damaged, they are frantically repairing it, and they will have to bring everybody back to the present in million-year stages. They can't bring them home in one big jump.
At the next to last time jump, they are in caveman era. They are befriended by a local tribe, particularly by a little caveman girl. When they make the jump to the present, they discover that the girl followed them through the rainbow ring. They take her outside to go to one of the houses, but a delivery truck with its light on scares the girl. She runs back inside, where the scientists are testing the time machine, dives through the rainbow ring, and is returned to her home time.
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
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Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
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Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1336457
Two scientists create a time machine, looks like a metal ring standing on edge like a Stargate. In operation it looks like it is a circular rainbow. One scientist tries it, but fails to return. Each scientist has a son who is a teenager, both beg the remaining scientist to let them go back in time to rescue the lost scientist.
They find the scientist back in dinosaur times. Unfortunately a brontosaurus trips over the rainbow ring and causes damage. The scientist in the present sends a letter back through time saying the time machine was damaged, they are frantically repairing it, and they will have to bring everybody back to the present in million-year stages. They can't bring them home in one big jump.
At the next to last time jump, they are in caveman era. They are befriended by a local tribe, particularly by a little caveman girl. When they make the jump to the present, they discover that the girl followed them through the rainbow ring. They take her outside to go to one of the houses, but a delivery truck with its light on scares the girl. She runs back inside, where the scientists are testing the time machine, dives through the rainbow ring, and is returned to her home time.
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1336457
Two scientists create a time machine, looks like a metal ring standing on edge like a Stargate. In operation it looks like it is a circular rainbow. One scientist tries it, but fails to return. Each scientist has a son who is a teenager, both beg the remaining scientist to let them go back in time to rescue the lost scientist.
They find the scientist back in dinosaur times. Unfortunately a brontosaurus trips over the rainbow ring and causes damage. The scientist in the present sends a letter back through time saying the time machine was damaged, they are frantically repairing it, and they will have to bring everybody back to the present in million-year stages. They can't bring them home in one big jump.
At the next to last time jump, they are in caveman era. They are befriended by a local tribe, particularly by a little caveman girl. When they make the jump to the present, they discover that the girl followed them through the rainbow ring. They take her outside to go to one of the houses, but a delivery truck with its light on scares the girl. She runs back inside, where the scientists are testing the time machine, dives through the rainbow ring, and is returned to her home time.
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1336457
Two scientists create a time machine, looks like a metal ring standing on edge like a Stargate. In operation it looks like it is a circular rainbow. One scientist tries it, but fails to return. Each scientist has a son who is a teenager, both beg the remaining scientist to let them go back in time to rescue the lost scientist.
They find the scientist back in dinosaur times. Unfortunately a brontosaurus trips over the rainbow ring and causes damage. The scientist in the present sends a letter back through time saying the time machine was damaged, they are frantically repairing it, and they will have to bring everybody back to the present in million-year stages. They can't bring them home in one big jump.
At the next to last time jump, they are in caveman era. They are befriended by a local tribe, particularly by a little caveman girl. When they make the jump to the present, they discover that the girl followed them through the rainbow ring. They take her outside to go to one of the houses, but a delivery truck with its light on scares the girl. She runs back inside, where the scientists are testing the time machine, dives through the rainbow ring, and is returned to her home time.
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1336457
Two scientists create a time machine, looks like a metal ring standing on edge like a Stargate. In operation it looks like it is a circular rainbow. One scientist tries it, but fails to return. Each scientist has a son who is a teenager, both beg the remaining scientist to let them go back in time to rescue the lost scientist.
They find the scientist back in dinosaur times. Unfortunately a brontosaurus trips over the rainbow ring and causes damage. The scientist in the present sends a letter back through time saying the time machine was damaged, they are frantically repairing it, and they will have to bring everybody back to the present in million-year stages. They can't bring them home in one big jump.
At the next to last time jump, they are in caveman era. They are befriended by a local tribe, particularly by a little caveman girl. When they make the jump to the present, they discover that the girl followed them through the rainbow ring. They take her outside to go to one of the houses, but a delivery truck with its light on scares the girl. She runs back inside, where the scientists are testing the time machine, dives through the rainbow ring, and is returned to her home time.
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
answered 6 hours ago
Winchell ChungWinchell Chung
6,74412452
6,74412452
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
Interesting.. I wonder if there are alternative versions with different endings -- I remember her being scared, and huddling in a corner, and the book ending with the hero wondering how she would handle the world..
– K-H-W
5 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
When the caveman girl lands in the lab, she huddles in the corner because everything is utterly alien to her. The protagonist leads her outside hoping to see trees and natural things. Unfortunately a delivery truck drives by.
– Winchell Chung
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
Ahh.. It was the early 80s when I read it; I must have just forgotten that part. Or, given the library I was at, it's possible the last page was missing :/
– K-H-W
4 hours ago
add a comment |
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Hi, welcome to SF&F. You should check out the suggestions to see if you remember any details to edit into the question. When did you read it? Where?
– DavidW
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This is very terse indeed. Fleshing it out would dramatically improve it. How, for example, did they travel in time? How did the Primitive return? What was the nature of the "device"? Were there any time travel rules?
– Valorum
6 hours ago