The High Government of the 25th century has directed Joe Quellen (a Level Seven) to find out who’s behind the escapes in time by lowly unemployed Level Fourteens and put a stop to it.
Suppose, he thought fretfully, some bureaucrat in Class Seven or Nine or thereabouts had gone ahead on his own authority, trying to win a quick uptwitch by dynamic action, and had rounded up a few known hoppers in advance of their departure. Thereby completely snarling the fabric of the time-line and irrevocably altering the past.

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  1. The Time Hoppers by Robert Silverberg (Doubleday, May 1967).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg