Thing of Beauty

by Damon Knight

Release: September 1958
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After a time-slip, con artist Gordon Fish receives nine packages containing a machine that makes magnificent drawings, but the instructions are in some unknown language.

There was a time slip in Southern California at about one in the afternoon. Mr. Gordon Fish thought it was an earthquake.

DEBUT

“Thing of Beauty,” in Galaxy, September 1958.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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ITTDB Work #1633: by Damon Knight
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Curator: Michael Main
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