Stop, You’re Killing Me!
- by Milton Lesser
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Stop, You’re Killing Me!,” as by Darius John Granger, in Imagination, February 1956.
Private eye Frank Foley’s latest client claims to have a nearly working time machine that his great great great great grandson is trying to demolish.
—Michael Main
At the moment I can’t prove to you that it works. Unless you believe my great great great great grandson really is what I say he is.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Foley’s home time
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Great-Great’s home time
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: a glass-composed compartment big enough for a man
- Themes
- End of Time Travel: Great-Great thinks that his plan will bring an end to all time travel.
- Grandfather Paradox: It’s never been done before, killing an ancestor. I might disrupt the whole family line.
- Self-Defeating Acts: Great-Great’s plan to destroy the machine is a self-defeating act.
- Stuck in Time: Great-Great is stuck in the 1950s. Frank ends up stuck in the 21st century.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Stop, You’re Killing Me!,” as by Darius John Granger, in Imagination, February 1956.
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written by
Milton Lesser as by Darius John Granger