Lafferty rewrites The Odyssey with a time machine, called a Dong Button, featured in Chapters 3 and 4.
—Fred Galvin
The Dong button was just that, a big green button with the word Dong engraved on it. You pushed it, and it went dong. Well, that was alnost too simple. Should there not be a deeper reason for it? And the small instruction plate over it didn't add much. It read: “Wrong prong, bong gong.

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  1. Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty, in Ace Double #H-56: Pity about Earth by Ernest Hill / Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968).
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  1. Dutch.
    De avonturen van kapitein Roodstorm by R. A. Lafferty (Meulenhoff, 1970).
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    Walter B. Relsky
  2. French.
    Chants de l’espace by R. A. Lafferty (OPTA, April 1974).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. A. Lafferty
    Mimi Perrin
  3. German.
    Die Odyssee des Captain Roadstrum by R. A. Lafferty (Moewig, November 1980).
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. A. Lafferty
    Hans Maeter
  4. Italian.
    Cantata spaziale by R. A. Lafferty, Galassia #216, June 1976.
    5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. A. Lafferty
    Gianni Montanari
  5. Spanish.
    Salomas del espacio by R. A. Lafferty (Acervo, 1978).
    6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. A. Lafferty
    José M. Aroca