Oh, dear! Albert Miller has dialed a wrong number on the Mugwump-4 exchange, and the mutants who answered have decided that the only solution is to catapult him into the future where he won’t be able to upset their plans for World Domination.
—Michael Main
At this stage in our campaign, we can take no risks. You’ll have to go. Prepare the temporal centrifuge, Mordecai.

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Variants

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  1. “Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
  2. alternative title.
    “Mugwump 4” by Robert Silverberg, in The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg

Translations

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  1. French.
    “Le coup du téléphone” by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxie 49, May 1968.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Michel Demuth
  2. Italian.
    “Mugwump quattro” by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxy 37, June 1961.
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons [possibly using an alias]
  3. Japanese.
    “ マグワンプ4,” as by ロバート・シルヴァーバーグ, in [.s-Fマガジン 月号 :: S-F magajin:] 187, July 1974.
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg as by ロバート・シルヴァーバーグ
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons [possibly using an alias]