Let the Ants Try
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Frederik Pohl
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Let the Ants Try,” as by Jamees MacCreigh, in Planet Stories, Winter 1949.
After a nuclear war, Dr. Salva Gordy and John de Terry decide to use their time machine to see whether a recently mutated form of ant might do a better job than mankind if the ants were given a 40-million-year head start.
And I doubt that you speak mathematics. The closest I can come is to say that it displaces temporal coordinates. Is that gibberish?
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- “Let the Ants Try,” as by Jamees MacCreigh, in Planet Stories, Winter 1949.
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Frederik Pohl as by James MacCreigh