The Trap of Solid Gold: "Half-Past Eternity"

The Trap of Solid Gold: "Half-Past Eternity": It’s one of [John D.] MacDonald’s more delightful stories, in that it is barely science fiction for much of its early pages, and the subject matter of the plot straddles several different story types and works on several different levels: it’s a crime story, a sports story, a business story and a science fiction story.