A Little Something for Us Tempunauts

by Philip K. Dick

Release: May 1974
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Addison Doug and his two fellow time travelers seem to have caused a time loop wherein everyone is reliving the same events with only vague memories of what happened on the previous loop.

Every man has more to live for than every other man. I don’t have a cute chick to sleep with, but I’d like to see the semi’s rolling along the Riverside Freeway at sunset a few more times. It’s not what you have to live for; it’s that you want to live to see it, to be there—that’s what is so damn sad.

DEBUT

“A Little Something for Us Tempunauts,” in Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg (Charterhouse, May 1974).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Groupings

Cited in Paradoxes of Time Travel by Rayn Wasserrman ()
Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()
Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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