Obscure physicist John Suttle receives a phone call from the future with information about his eventual fate.
As I said, I’m calling you from the twenty-fifth century. I am also a physicist. In fact, I’m the leader of a research group that’s studying space-time contortion phenomena. Recently, we discovered a way to make phone calls into the past.

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  1. “Hot Tip” by Billy Bruce Winkles, in Analog, May 2002.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Billy Bruce Winkles