MUgwump Four
- by Robert Silverberg
- Novelette
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.
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.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: 10 October 1959
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: AD 2431
- Timeline Models
- Time Barrier: “The victory was due to the recent invention of a kind of time-barrier projector.”
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Catapults: “This machine will hurl you forward in time.”
- Themes
- Language Difficulties: “Albert grinned. No doubt they had fetched an expert in dead languages to talk to him.”
- Fictional Tags
- Parallel Universes or Dimensions: “In our fourspace, the mutants are eradicated—but they lurk elsewhere, waiting for their chance to enter and spread destruction.”
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.
- alternative title.
“Mugwump 4” by Robert Silverberg, in The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969). - “Le coup du téléphone” [The phone call] by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxie 49, May 1968.
- “Mugwump quattro” [Mugwump four] by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxy 37, June 1961.
- “ マグワンプ4” [Mugwump 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.
Translations
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- “Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.
- alternative title.
“Mugwump 4” by Robert Silverberg, in The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969). - French.
“Le coup du téléphone” [The phone call] by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxie 49, May 1968. - Italian.
“Mugwump quattro” [Mugwump four] by Robert Silverberg, in Galaxy 37, June 1961. - Japanese.
“ マグワンプ4” [Mugwump 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.