Benjamin, having a really bad day working at his seemingly pointless job watching a machine that supposedly retrieves information from the future, gets a feeling that he and the machine’s inventor have been through all this before.
I substituted phase-compensating lenses to dispel the zero average of the cosine function mandated by Eberhard’s proof. I instituted an autocidal-prevention mechanism to avoid the self-canceling paradox. Kill my own grandfather? Father a child who will bear a child who will kill me? What nonsense. My calcite crystals generate superluminal tachyons. Information from the future! The Nostradamus Machine!

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  1. “Tomorrow Is a Lovely Day” by Lisa Mason, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2015.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Lisa Mason