Tomorrow Is a Lovely Day
by Lisa Mason
Benjamin, having a really bad day working at his seemingly pointless job watching a
machine that supposedly retrieves information from the future, gets a feeling that he and
the machine’s inventor have been through all this before.
I substituted phase-compensating lenses to dispel the zero average of the cosine function
mandated by Eberhard’s proof. I instituted an autocidal-prevention mechanism to avoid
the self-canceling paradox. Kill my own grandfather? Father a child who will bear a child
who will kill me? What nonsense. My calcite crystals generate superluminal tachyons.
Information from the future! The Nostradamus Machine!
“Tomorrow Is a Lovely Day” by Lisa Mason, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December
2015.