But Ernie understands the long and the short of it well enough. The bottom line is the kid and his professor at school found a way to make these lumps spend some of their own future in the present.

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  1. “The Most Important Thing in the World” by Steve Bein, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Steve Bein