
Carsville, and his wife, Agnes just would not let him read. Henry is very frustrated, the thing he would like to do most of all in his life is read and nobody will allow him this pleasure.Īs the story states, “Henry had no time of his own.” His employer Mr. Time Enough at Last is about Henry Bemis, who works at the East Side Bank and Trust.


While reading this story, it is almost impossible to not imagine Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis throughout this tale. “Time Enough at Last,” a short story from the 1953 Magazine If, Worlds of Science Fiction is a very familiar story- especially for those people who are Twilight Zone fans. We can only imagine how science fiction fans felt in 1953 when reading this story, written before the now famous Twilight Zone episode aired on television and how it sparked many science-fiction fans imagination while reading this story for the first time. To Henry Bemis it meant something far different-a thing to appreciate and enjoy.”

“The atomic bomb meant, to most people, the end.
