Hot Tip
by Billy Bruce Winkles
Obscure physicist John Suttle receives a phone call from the future with information
about his eventual fate.
As I said, I’m calling you from the twenty-fifth century. I am also a physicist. In
fact, I’m the leader of a research group that’s studying space-time contortion
phenomena. Recently, we discovered a way to make phone calls into the past.
“Hot Tip” by Billy Bruce Winkles, in Analog,
May 2002.