Ben Franklin’s Laser

by Doug Beason

Release: mid-December 1990
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

It appears that the sun will go nova in 75 hours, which leaves Grayson to go back in time to give a boost to science in Ben Franklin’s time.

It sounded nice and simple: allow Ben Franklin to invent the laser and let the technology casade. Grow enough so that in five hundred years we’d have something to get us out of this mess.

DEBUT

“Ben Franklin’s Laser,” in Analog, mid-December 1990.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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ITTDB Work #2130: by Doug Beason
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Curator: Michael Main
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