You may remember that, a while back, I compiled a list of, and a link to, the Time Machine series of "Donald Keith," which featured a Boy Scout patrol in possession of an abandoned time machine. The stories appeared in Boys' Life between 1959 and 1989, and were fixed-up into a couple of books.

The intrepid planettom has picked up the bibliographic ball, ( Read more... )

I've updated my 14 May entry on Donald Keith's Time Machine stories, since Google Books has acquired more scans.

At this point, I believe I have links to every Time Machine story appearing in Boys' Life. If you know of any others, please inform me.

I put a partial list of the stories into Wikipedia's Donald Keith entry a while ago. It will ( Read more... )

Long ago, Boys' Life, the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America, ran the Time Machine series.

In these stories, a Boy Scout patrol finds an abandoned Time Machine in the wilderness; the Smart Kid figures out the controls and they roar off to adventure, acquiring new patrol members from ancient Sparta and from 4000 A.D. along the way.

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