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Anachron

by Damon Knight

Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don’t interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine.
“By God and all the saints,” he said. “Time travel.”

Harold snorted impatiently. “My dear Peter, ‘time’ is a meaningless word taken by itself, just as ‘space’ is.”

“But barring that, time travel.”

“If you like, yes.”

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“Anachron,” in If, January 1954.
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