An insurance agent from Cleveland is selected as the representative of Earth in a galactic
trial for multiple crimes against life, but it’s not until the verdict that you’ll see
the time travel angle.
Representative? I’m an insurance agent from Cleveland, Ohio! I got a wife and three
kids and about the worst thing I’ve ever done was voting Republican in the last
election. How can I be a representative?
DEBUT
“Murder in the Nth Degree,” in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac
Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Murder in the Nth Degree,” in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).