Of Time and Texas

By William F. Nolan

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

In a future bursting at the seams, a professor's plan to solve overpopulation with a one-way trip to the past hilariously backfires when a stampede disrupts his experiment, proving time travel might be more trouble than it's worth.

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Science Fiction Literature Science-Fiction & Fantasy Fiction

Released

2009-05-20

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Summary

"Of Time and Texas" by William F. Nolan is a mid-20th century science fiction story where a quirky professor, C. Cydwick Ohms, thinks time travel will fix the crowded future of 2057. With a mix of funny and creative ideas, Nolan tells a story about what could happen when people mess with time travel. Professor Ohms shows off his Time Door, which he says can send people to Texas in 1957, but things don't go as planned, and everything turns into a mess. The story shows the struggle between wanting to invent new things and the surprising problems that can come with it, ending with a funny scene of a stampede crashing into the professor's lab, pointing out how weird time travel can be and the problems in society. Through this interesting story, Nolan looks at themes like wanting to escape, being overly ambitious with technology, and how silly it is for people to try to control time.