In early 1960, Perry Mason author Earl (not Erle) Stanley Gardner and his wife host John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Edward Teller, Ronald Reagan, Douglas MacArthur and Jackie Kennedy to discuss a shared dream in which a time-traveling alien requires them to pick one person to eliminate from history as a prerequisite to a final revision of mankind’s history.
Michael Main
If one of these people dies young, that will pay your debt.

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  1. “Finalizing History” by Richard K. Lyon, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2008.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Richard K. Lyon