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Me, Myself and I

by William Tenn
As an experiment, a scientist sends unemployed strongman Cartney back 110 million years to make a small change. He makes this first change, which changes things in the present, and then he must go back again and again, whereupon he meets himself and him.

I keep finding earlier and earlier stories with the idea of destroying mankind by squishing a bug, and I am wondering whether this is the earliest linchpin bug (although that doesn’t actually happen here).

Maybe tomorrow you’ll be visiting your great, great grandmother.
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“Me, Myself and I,” in Planet Stories, Winter 1947.
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