A council of Native American elders has been funding Agnes Wilder’s project to view the past, but now they’re ready to cancel the shoestring budget because they haven’t yet seen a demonstration of the technology.
When can you make the machine work?

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  1. “The Battle of Little Big Science” by Pamela Rentz, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2010.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Pamela Rentz