When a contraption drops onto the Coon Creek Institute causing various objects to appear and
disappear from out of time, Old Prather calls together three former students: someone with
expertise in time travel (our discredited time-travel researcher and narrator, Charley
Spencer), one who’s a mean-spirited, world-famous mathematician (Leonard Asbury), and with
no preconceptions about the matter (the lovely composer, Mary Holland, who broken more than
one heart on the campus).
A time machine has fallen into a clump of birch just above the little pond back of the
machine shops.
DEBUT
“The Birch Clump Cylinder,” in Stellar 1, edited by Judy-Lynn de Rey
(Ballantine Books, September 1974).
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Birch Clump Cylinder,” in Stellar 1, edited by Judy-Lynn de Rey (Ballantine Books, September 1974).
A time machine has fallen into a clump of birch just above the little pond back of the
machine shops.
1 English variant