A projected vision from the future takes on the forms of various 20th century comedians from Charley Chaplin to Don Rickles, and he’s also making wildlife manager Chris Reilly kidnap children.
The comedian looked just like a living, breathing, three-dimensional human being, the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce, come to see the unhappy world end.

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  1. “The Comedian,” as by Timothy Robert Sullivan, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1982.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Tim Sullivan as by Timothy Robert Sullivan