The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for young adults, 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 and Time Machine to the Rescue, with Donald Keith listed 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 (often the story narrator) 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, an impetuous tenderfoot
Stories in Boys' Life In the following table, "DK" indicates that the story's author is listed as Donald Keith, while "KM" means attribution to Keith Monroe. Links are to the copies available at Google Books. Issue Title Author Serial dates December 1959 DK February 1960 DK June 1960 DK July 1960 DK October 1961 DK February 1962 DK December 1962 DK Dec 1962 to Mar 1963 (4-part serial) January 1963 DK Dec 1962 to Mar 1963 (4-part serial) February 1963 DK Dec 1962 to Mar 1963 (4-part serial) March 1963 DK Dec 1962 to Mar 1963 (4-part serial) June 1964 DK October 1964 DK February 1965 DK Feb 1965 to Apr 1965 (3-part serial) March 1965 DK Feb 1965 to Apr 1965 (3-part serial) April 1965 DK Feb 1965 to Apr 1965 (3-part serial) April 1967 DK Apr 1967 to Jun 1967 (3-part serial) May 1967 DK Apr 1967 to Jun 1967 (3-part serial) June 1967 DK Apr 1967 to Jun 1967 (3-part serial) December 1968 DK September 1970 DK August 1971 DK February 1973 DK August 1973 KM December 1973 DK November 1974 KM April 1975 KM July 1976 KM September 1988 KM February 1989 KM September 1989 KM
See also
The Time Machine The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries The Key Word and Other Mysteries
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