By night, Addyer dreams of traveling to different times; by day, he is a statistician investigating an anomalous increase in the country’s population centered right in the part of the country that took the heaviest radiation damage in the war.
Either he imagined himself moved backward in time with a double armful of Encyclopedia Britannica, best-sellers, hit plays and gambling records; or else he imagined himself transported forward in time a thousand years to the Golden Age of perfection.

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  1. “Hobson’s Choice” by Alfred Bester, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Alfred Bester