Vernon Lewis has a theoretical idea for a time machine, but no money to build it, so he
hatches a plan to send himself various money-making artifacts from the future and use the
money to build the machine that will send the items back—and one day, in the afternoon
mail, the package arrives.
He ripped the tape off, unwrapped the brown paper. There it was—an almanac.
DEBUT
“Package Deal,” in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al.
(Taplinger, September 1980).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Package Deal,” in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).
He ripped the tape off, unwrapped the brown paper. There it was—an almanac.
1 English variant