Child’s Play

by William Tenn

Release: March 1947
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Sam Weber, an underemployed lawyer, receives a Bild-a-Man kit as a Christmas gift from 400 years in the future—and it’s a timely gift, too, seeing as how he could use a replacement girlfriend.

Bild-a-Man Set #3. This set is intended solely for the use of children, between the ages of eleven and thirteen. The equipment, much more advanced that Bild-a-Man Sets 1 and 2, will enable the child of this age-group to build and assemble complete adult humans in perfect working order.

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“Child’s Play,” Astounding, March 1947.

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1 English variant

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Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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ITTDB Work #1401: by William Tenn
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Curator: Michael Main
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