Lieutenant Kyuoko Morioka travels seventy years into the past to bring the inventor of time travel to her day because strange anomalies are appearing in the time stream.
I’m from seventy years in the future, and we need you to save us all.

Variants

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  1. “A Thousand Different Copies” by Janet Guy, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Janet Guy