Mandy snatches doomed people from the past in order to populate her war-decimated time.
I had to choose between a panic if the fathead got them to thinking, and a possible panic from the flash of the gun. But when a 20th gets to talking about his “rights” and what he is “owed,&rdauo; things can get out of hand.

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  1. “Air Raid” by John Varley, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Spring 1977.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Varley