The Paradox Men
Charles L. HarnessCharles L. Harness's novel mixes elements of the swashbuckling space adventure with the most esoteric ideas of time travel and culminates in a grandiose attempt to change the destiny of mankind. Its hero confronts a decadent world about to destroy itself, and he must undergo death and transfiguration at the edge of the Sun to rescue human history from its endless cycle of growth and decay and from the waste of tyranny.
A shorter version of Harness's story was first published in a 1949 issue of Startling Stories under the title Flight into Yesterday. An expanded hardcover version appeared in 1953. In 1955 editor Donald A. Wollheim retitled the storyThe Paradox Men for a new Ace paperback. It has been unavailable to American readers for nearly three decades.
Extensively revised by the author this is now the definitive edition of a genuine-science fiction classic.