Eight Ball Blues

by Jack C. Haldeman II

Release: December 1980
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

A time traveler from the 21st century comes to a Florida bar to talk with pool shark Tucker “Skeeter” Moore about his choices in marriage and about saving the world.

Now wait a minute! I married—er, I’m going to marry—Betty-Ann?

DEBUT

“Eight Ball Blues,” in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1980.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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ITTDB Work #1959: by Jack C. Haldeman II
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Curator: Michael Main
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