Max Alben Mac Albin is genetically predisposed to survive time travel, so he’s the natural choice to go back in time and shift the course of a missile that shifted the course of history.
Michael Main
Now! Now to make a halfway decent world! Max Alben pulled the little red switch toward him.
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Now! Now to make a halfway interesting world! Mac Albin pulled the little red switch toward him.
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  1. “Of All Possible Worlds” by William Tenn, Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1956.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by William Tenn
  3. alternative title.
    “It Ends with a Flicker” by William Tenn, in The Wooden Star by William Tenn (Ballantine Books, June 1968).
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by William Tenn
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  1. French.
    “Le choix d'un monde” by William Tenn, in Galaxie, April 1957.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by William Tenn
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Yoma Cap
  3. German.
    “Die bessere Welt” by William Tenn, in Null-P, by William Tenn (Heyne, July 1973).
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by William Tenn