Talk:Time Trapper (Pre-Zero Hour)

Galos Gann, a proto Time Trapper?

Someone on wikipedia noted that the Time Trapper bears a pronounced resemblance to the protagonist of an Edmond Hamilton short story, "In the World's Dusk", which appeared in the science fiction magazine Weird Tales in 1936.

I went and read "In the World's Dusk" and confirmed what was said about it. We have Galos Gann, the last living human being, a withered figure, cloaked entirely in robes, who sits brooding in a towering hall in the desert wastelands of the Earth in the distant future.

He keeps trying to restore humanity to Earth and each attempt is a dismal failure:

He brings back the dead only to find that they cannot propagate.

He pulls pulls men and women from the distant past to act as breeding stock but the effects of time travel drive them insane.

He supposes that mankind will evolve again and so goes into suspended animation but wakes to find another desolated world with another person in his role who then dies leaving Gann alone again.--BruceGrubb (talk) 15:43, September 24, 2016 (UTC)