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Alexander Jablokov

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At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball

by Alexander Jablokov
Jacob Landstatter is an art critic, and his chosen objects d’art are the alternate realities that the Lords of Time commission from artists who go back in time to make specific changes that result in worlds of one sort or another. So who could want to kill someone with such an occupation as innocuous as Jacob’s?
Normal intestinal flora. Mutated and hybridized with amyotrophic lateral schlerosis. Infects via the GI tract and destroys the central nervous systems of higher primates. Neat. Grew it in the guts of an Australopithecine on the African veldt, two, three million years ago. Not easy, Jacob, not easy. When I woke up on that pallet at Centrum, I had bedsores, and a headache that lasted a month. Killed them all. Every last one of the buggers. Nothing left on this planet with more brains than an orangutan.
“At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1987.

Many Mansions

by Alexander Jablokov
Working for an alien time cop, Mattias jumps through fixed wormholes in time, heading to medieval France, North America in the last ice age, ancient Egypt, 17th-century Persia, and probably a few other places that he and I are having trouble remembering. We both need a vacation.
It took most of Isaac Newton’s Principia to snap him out of it.
“Many Mansions” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1988.

The Ring of Memory

by Alexander Jablokov
Time travel agent Hugh Solomon chases through time after Andy Tarkin who blames Hugh for the death of their common crush in 1902 Chicago.

The story has a nice bootstrapping paradox.

Have you sold a ring recently, in the shape of a serpent with its own tail in its mouth?
“The Ring of Memory” by Alexander Jablokov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 1989.

Since You Seem to Need a Certain Amount of Guidance

by Alexander Jablokov
Alex Jablokov brought this funny story for the students to read at the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2014. The story, in the form of a letter from the future, tells us how much happier and better the future is. And don’t contact them again!

I loved meeting Alex. He is kind and mentoring to new writers!

We do not think the Marx Brothers are funny.
“Since You Seem to Need a Certain Amount of Guidance” by Alexander Jablokov, Daily Science Fiction, 6 November 2012 [webzine].
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