One against time
By: by Astron del Martia
Contributors: Podwil, Jerome, illus
Publisher: Paperback Library
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
First sentence: It was a large domed chamber, its walls glowing with the pearly brilliance of daylight.
Description: Harold Newman was a less than average bank clerk with a recurring nightmare - how to make his figures balance at the end of the day. Until the day he woke up as a mathematical genius, a super brain.
What was the connection with the inexorable workings of the first successful time machine? And what was the link with the past that made him a potential threat to the existence of the earth?
The security officers working for the world president probed time to find out.  Because mankind was on the brink of discovering a formula for breaking down the fissional basis of everyday objects that could either ensure the continuance of life on earth or destroy it altogether.
So the order went out: kill the superbrain - whoever he is!
Notes: Paperback Library science fiction, 63-270

Coverart by Jerome Podwil

Copyright 1969; first printing, March 1970