ISFDB banner

Title: Delayed Action

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

Title: Delayed Action Title Record # 45733
Author: Charles V. De Vet
Date: 1953-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Wordcount (Gutenberg project): 6.235
Synopsis: A planet has a unique tourist attraction, a real Moebius strip where gravity behaves strangely. Even though it is a popular travel spot apparently no one has ever studied at all, and no one has even walked on it for more than a little distance. A man follows another to bridge further than anyone before and finds that he is transported in time. He has lost his memory, finds a job and lives his life until he almost robbed.
User Rating: This title has no votes. VOTE
Current Tags: None Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1953 Delayed Action [as by Charles Vincent de Vet]
Year Language Title
1955 French Un crime bien préparé
1958 German
Zeitzündung?Zeitzuendung
1960Translated by Lidia Lax
Italian Una maledizione inevitabile
1977 French Pour qui sait attendre... [as by Charles van De Vet]

Publications

Not displaying translations • Display all variants and translationsDo not display variants or translations

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1953 1953-09-00 ed. H. L. Gold Galaxy Publishing Corp.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Emsh Checkmark
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], Vol.: 3. No. 11 1954-02-00 ed. H. L. Gold Strato Publications  
1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
128
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Emsh Checkmark
Delayed Action 2010-09-21 Charles V. De Vet Project Gutenberg 33790    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap  
The 14th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack 2015-03-18 Charles V. De Vet Wildside Press 978-1-4794-0269-4
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Malcolm Smith  
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1 2016-03-21 ed. Warren Lapine Positronic Publishing 978-1-5154-0560-3
$14.99?$: US dollar
522
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Krarrier  
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1 2016-03-25 ed. Warren Lapine Positronic Publishing 978-1-5154-0524-5
$1.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Krarrier  
The Science Fiction Crime Megapack 2017-04-10 ed. uncredited Wildside Press  
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1 2018-04-03 ed. Warren Lapine Positronic Publishing 978-1-5154-2108-5
$24.99?$: US dollar
522
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Krarrier  
View all covers for Delayed Action (logged in users can change User Preferences to always display covers on this page)
Copyright © 1995-2024 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)