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The Ray of Displacement

Harriet Prescott Spofford

First published October 1903
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Captions of the three 1903 magazine illustrations are revealing (each a quotation from the text): * I put out my hand, lifting my lever, turned the current into my coils, and blazed up my Y Ray for half a heart beat." (3 men in a laboratory setting) * I walked through the wall before his amazed eyes, and walked back again." (a displaced man occupies the same space as a wall) * 'Through him! Pass through him! Come out! Come to me!' I cried. (a bodily man and a displaced man occupy the same living room chair)

First published October 1903 in The Metropolitan Magazine 19:1, pp. 37-47, with 3 illustrations by Lester Ralph

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1903 The Metropolitan Magazine, October 1903 R. H. Russell MAGAZINE 37
1968 Cover Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History of Science Fiction in Popular Magazines, 1891—1911 World Publishing Co. Anthology 120
1969 Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History of Science Fiction in Popular Magazines, 1891—1911 World Publishing Co. Anthology 120
1973 Cover Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 187
1973 Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 187
1974 Cover Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 Hyperion Press Anthology 120
June 1974 Cover Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 Hyperion Press Anthology 121
July 2000 Cover The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 380
September 2000 Cover The Moonstone Mass and Others Ash-Tree Press Collection 122
2003 Cover The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 380
March 2010 The Ray of Displacement and Other Stories Amazon Digital Services Collection |2
2012 Cover The Monster-Maker and Other Science Fiction Classics Fall River Press Anthology 155
February 2015 Cover The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers Dover Publications Anthology |53
March 2015 Cover The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers Dover Publications Anthology 53
October 2016 Cover The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction: Second Edition Phoenix Pick Anthology