Time Machine series
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The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for children, published between 1959 and 1989 in Boys' Life
magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. The Polaris Patrol visited the future and the past, sometimes recruiting new Scouts. The stories used the time machine as a framework for history lessons, but also explored the consequences of having a time machine (as well as the various technologies the boys who discovered it obtain from the future).
The author was given as Donald Keith
for most of the stories, a pseudonym for the father-and-son team of Donald and Keith Monroe. In later years, some stories were credited just to the son, Keith Monroe
.
The first story in the series was "The Day We Explored the Future," appearing in the December 1959 Boys' Life on page 18.
Some of the stories were collected in two books, Mutiny in the Time Machine (1963) and Time Machine to the Rescue (1967), with Donald Keith given as the author.
All the Time Machine stories are available from Google Books in its collection of Boys' Life issues.
Boys' Life
Boys' Life is the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America . Its targeted readership is young American males between the ages of 6 and 18.Boys' Life is published in two demographic editions...
magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. The Polaris Patrol visited the future and the past, sometimes recruiting new Scouts. The stories used the time machine as a framework for history lessons, but also explored the consequences of having a time machine (as well as the various technologies the boys who discovered it obtain from the future).
The author was given as Donald Keith
Donald Keith
Donald Keith was a pseudonym for authors Donald and Keith Monroe . They are best known for their series of stories in the Time Machine series, which were originally published in Boys' Life magazine between 1959 and 1989...
for most of the stories, a pseudonym for the father-and-son team of Donald and Keith Monroe. In later years, some stories were credited just to the son, Keith Monroe
Keith Monroe
Keith Monroe was an American author of children's science fiction and of books and magazine articles about Boy Scouting....
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The first story in the series was "The Day We Explored the Future," appearing in the December 1959 Boys' Life on page 18.
Some of the stories were collected in two books, Mutiny in the Time Machine (1963) and Time Machine to the Rescue (1967), with Donald Keith given as the author.
All the Time Machine stories are available from Google Books in its collection of Boys' Life issues.
Recurring characters
- Bob Tucker, patrol leader
- Ellsworth "Brains" Baynes, brilliant bookworm who operates the Machine
- Kai Beezee Tentroy, recruited from a city called Troy in 4000 A.D.
- Dion, recruited from ancient Sparta
- Rodney Carver, impetuous Tenderfoot