Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore\'s sole novel of 1948, "The Mask of Circe," was a very way-out excursion in the fantasy realm, and in early 1949, the pair followed up with an equally way-out piece of hard sci-fi. "The Time Axis," which initially appeared in the January \'49 issue of "Startling Stories," finds science fiction\'s foremost husband-and-wife writing team (my apologies to Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm!) at the top of their game, but perhaps giving their seemingly limitless imagination too free a rein.