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Sra and Cork travel from five centuries in the future back to 1963 where they hope to be
the first to succeed in actually changing history for the better despite the Fillagian
principle. Ah, you think, must be presidential history that they’ve set their hearts
on, and you wouldn’t be entirely wrong.
And speaking of long periods of time, more
than a quarter century passed between this Paul Holt time-travel story and his previous
one in a 1983 issue of Asimov’s, which is a feat that deserves high
congratulations!
She was strectched out on one of the deck chairs on the balcony of their apartment. They
had rented it temporarily until they could cash in a few more diamonds, pretty much
worthless in their own time but extremely valuable here, and buy a house. They were rich
of course. Why would they come back poor?
Cork was standing at the railing pointing at
his bell bottoms. “People are looking at me funny,” he said. “Nobody else is
wearing these.” Their pre-migration research indicated people did, but they could have
been a couple of years off.