Target One

by Frederik Pohl

Release: April 1955
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Thirty-five years after the death of Albert Einstein, atomic bombs have left 2 billion corpses; the bombs came from Einstein’s formulae; so what is it we need?

I had the good fortune to meet Fred Pohl in July of 2003 at Jim Gunn's workshop in Manhattan, Kansas. On a warm day outside the student union building, he kindly sat and talked to me about the background for a story I was writing about him and Asimov.

Quite simply, it is the murder of Albert Einstein.

DEBUT

“Target One,” in Galaxy, April 1955.

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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 #1561: by Frederik Pohl
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Curator: Michael Main
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