DIMENSION X - Beyond Infinity

DIMENSION X
Beyond Infinity
July 21, 1950

Beyond Infinity was written specifically for Dimension X and it first aired on July 21, 1950. The story takes place in the future where science has advanced but sadly the state of human conflict has not. Rebels planning a coup may have to use an untested scientific route to avoid betraying their cause, and in so doing, reveal the unsettling reality of our Universe.
The announcer credits the writer as Vier Gerson, but archives and Google want to attribute the story to Villiers Gerson, a book reviewer for the New York Times, who has no radio plays or short stories in his IMDb, no association with radio or Hollywood, nor connection to Dimension X. Listen repeatedly and you will not hear the announcer say, "Villiers". It is very clearly Vier. My assumption is that this is a pseudonym for someone who felt they could not take credit for the work either because they were already well known in another genre and didn't want to be associated with SciFi, or because the plot questions conventional conceptions of religion and they wanted to assert those ideas anonymously. Either way, I can find no evidence that Villiers Gerson, critic and essayist for the New York Times Book Review, wrote this story. It is just one more internet game of "telephone" where one person wrote it down and someone used that as definitive research and repeated it, until now the mistake is accepted as fact.

HISTORICAL GLOSSARY

When Alan asks Eva, "...are you willing to step out of the cylinder with me?" Her response is a verse from the Torah, or the Old Testament, "...for whither thou goest I will go. Thy people shall be my people. And thy God, my God." In the Bible the quote was said by Ruth, a gentile woman who had married into the Jewish people. Her husband had died so she was no longer obligated to stay with the Jews, but instead of going back to her own people she said that quote to her mother-in-law, and she stayed. The quote initially seems out of place in this drama until the end when the religious implications of worlds within worlds put into question the singular identity of God.