What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper
- by Robert Silverberg
- Short Story
- Horror
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper” by Robert Silverberg, in Infinity Four, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer Books, November 1972).
When all eleven families on Redford Crescent receive a newspaper from the middle of next week, the result is a hastily called neighborhood meeting and an assortment of get-rich-quick plans.
—Michael Main
Which sounds more fantastic? That someone would take the trouble of composing an entire fictional edition of the Times setting it in type printing it and having it delivered or that through some sort of fluke of the fourth dimension we’ve been allowed a peek at next week’s newspaper?
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: Based on the days of the week and the Nixon headline, the story is in 1970.
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: stock market, horse racing, football betting, etc.
- Media from Another Time: newspapers from the future
- Never Change the Past!: Silverberg’s story has a twist on Never Change the Past, which is Never Change What We Know to Be True about the Future!
- Groupings
Variants
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- “What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper” by Robert Silverberg, in Infinity Four, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer Books, November 1972).
- “Ce qu'il y avait dans le journal de ce matin” [What was in this morning’s newspaper] by Robert Silverberg, in Trips (J’ai Lu, May 1980).
- “Ein Blick in die Zukunft” [A look into the future] by Robert Silverberg, in Jetzt Plus Minus (Goldmann, June 1977).
- “Was heute in der Morgenzeitung stand” [What was in the newspaper today] by Robert Silverberg, in Zielzeit, edited by Karl Michael Armer andWolfgang Jeschke (Heyne, March 1985).
- “Šta smo saznali iz jutrošnjih novina” [What we learned from this morning’s newspaper] by Robert Silverberg, in Monolit knjiga 4, edited by Boban Knežević (Izdanje Prevodilaca, 1988).
Translations
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- “What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper” by Robert Silverberg, in Infinity Four, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer Books, November 1972).
- French.
“Ce qu'il y avait dans le journal de ce matin” [What was in this morning’s newspaper] by Robert Silverberg, in Trips (J’ai Lu, May 1980). - German.
“Ein Blick in die Zukunft” [A look into the future] by Robert Silverberg, in Jetzt Plus Minus (Goldmann, June 1977). - German.
“Was heute in der Morgenzeitung stand” [What was in the newspaper today] by Robert Silverberg, in Zielzeit, edited by Karl Michael Armer andWolfgang Jeschke (Heyne, March 1985). - Serbian.
“Šta smo saznali iz jutrošnjih novina” [What we learned from this morning’s newspaper] by Robert Silverberg, in Monolit knjiga 4, edited by Boban Knežević (Izdanje Prevodilaca, 1988).