Beyond the Time Barrier story
U.S. Air Force test pilot Major Bill Allison flies the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital spaceflight successfully, though losing radio contact in flight. When Major Allison returns to the airbase it appears abandoned, old and deserted. Mystified, he sees a futuristic city on the horizon and heads toward it. The major is rendered unconscious and captured.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| mass infertility | major | Cosmic radiation made the people of 2024 infertile, dooming their society. |
| romantic love | major | Bill Allison and Princess Trirene. |
| subterranean civilization | major | The post-apocalyptic future people lived in an underground city known as the Citadel. |
| telepathic society | major | Princess Trirene was mute but had the power to read thoughts. |
| the dangers of radioactivity | major | A cosmic ray filtering layer in the atmosphere had been destroyed by dust from nuclear tests. Cosmic radiation bombarded the Earth, turning many people into mutants, and others sterile. |
| time travel | major | Major Bill Allison returned from a flight into sub-orbital space to the Earth of year 2024. |
| grandfather and granddaughter | minor | The Supreme and Princess Trirene. |
| rapid aging effect | minor | Major Bill Allison returned back to his own year of 1960 but as an old man. |
| sub-orbital spaceflight | minor | Major Bill Allison piloted the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital space. |