Project Gutenberg 2009-07-15 Public domain in the USA. 275 West, Wallace 1900 1980 West, Wallace George The End of Time Produced from Astounding Stories March 1933. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The End of Time" by Wallace West is a science fiction novella that was originally published in Astounding Stories in the early 1930s. The narrative revolves around a peculiar phenomenon where humanity experiences a paralysis of time-sense, causing people to move in extreme slow motion and eventually be trapped in a state of suspended animation. This work explores the concept of time as a subjective experience, guided by both philosophical musings and the story's gripping events that blend scientific inquiry with human drama. In the story, Jack Baron, a radio engineer, and Dr. Frank Manthis, a chemist, discover that a mysterious force is causing individuals to lose their perception of time, leading them to be frozen in place as the world around them continues to function at a normal pace. With only a limited supply of a drug that temporarily corrects this time-sense, the two men, along with June, the doctor's daughter, struggle against a sinister figure, Ivan Solinski, who seeks to control this power for his own nefarious purposes. As they fight to awaken those who have succumbed to this cataleptic state, their desperation leads them to a climactic confrontation that determines not just their fate, but the fate of the entire world. The story is rich with themes of resilience, the nature of reality, and the implications of scientific exploration gone awry. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 86.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Astounding Stories Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 83872 2025-06-12T08:27:26.454916 text/html 80829 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 81393 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 143981 2025-06-12T08:27:31.051899 application/epub+zip 142825 2025-06-12T08:27:28.295931 application/epub+zip 91558 2025-06-12T08:27:27.123942 application/epub+zip 229359 2025-06-12T08:27:33.060878 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 222641 2025-06-12T08:27:30.298908 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 149757 2022-09-13T15:16:00.649780 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 76586 2025-06-12T08:27:26.123907 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 76500 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 30491 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 76491 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30471 2009-07-15T07:28:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20940 2025-06-12T08:27:33.204878 application/rdf+xml 11056 2025-06-12T08:27:27.680927 image/jpeg 2992 2025-06-12T08:27:27.397912 image/jpeg 140495 2025-06-12T08:27:26.466927 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia