Lyn Venable

Lyn Venable
Lyn Venable was an American science fiction writer, active primarily in the 1950s. She is best known for her short story "Time Enough at Last," which was adapted into a famous episode of "The Twilight Zone". Her work often explored dystopian themes, time travel, and the complexities of human nature. Venable's contributions to speculative fiction were significant during the early years of genre magazines, and she published her stories in periodicals like "If" and "Galaxy Science Fiction".

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or a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. To read a book. Not just the title or the preface, or a page somewhere in the middle. He wanted to read the whole thing, all the way through from beginning to end. A simple ambition perhaps, but in the cluttered life of Henry Bemis, an impossibility. Henry had no time of his own. There was his wife, Agnes who owned that part of it that his employer, Mr.... more...

Tyndall heard the rockets begin to roar, and it seemed as though the very blood in his veins pulsated with the surging of those mighty jets. Going? They couldn't be going. Not yet. Not without him! And he heard the roaring rise to a mighty crescendo, and he felt the trembling of the ground beneath the room in which he lay, and then the great sound grew less, and grew dim, and finally dissipated in... more...