Time Grabber
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Description
Time Grabber, a science fiction tale by Gordon Dickson, ran in Imagination in December 1952. A blurb frames the puzzle: switching sixteen Romans from the first century to the twenty-seventh looked like sound research. But who was going to take their place? The tale unfolds in diary entries and memos that jump between eras.
A scholar of the year 2631 writes in his diary of February 16. He chafes under Croton Myers, the physicist who controls the time-grapple and will not let him use it. Myers warns of tearing the fabric of time and talks of twenty years of trials. The scholar's fame in sociomatics is at stake, and he vows to act without leave. A memo from ancient Rome then asks for Christians to fight gladiators. Dickson plays the swap for dry comedy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |