Andrew Weiner

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Short Story

One More Time

  • by Andrew Weiner
  • in Chrysalis 10, edited by Roy Torgeson (Doubleday, April 1983)

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Klein’s Machine


After Philip Herbert Klein returns from a psychosis-inducing trip in his time machine, he has philosophical conversations with his psychiatrist.
The hamster is back. Also my wristwatch, which I strapped on its back.
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Rider


Arnold Lerner is deep into a fugue—a state that allows him to revisit past memories and rewrite them in your own mind. But he’s so deeply in fugue that he won’t ever come out. Then again, some people doubt both those sentences: Ruth Brandon, director of the Hartley Mind Research Center, says that it’s a long shot, but she might be able to go in after Lerner and pull him out; and some say that the rewriting of history is not just in your own mind.

Among other places, the story takes Ruth Brandon to the 1970 total solar eclipse in Miahuatlán; and quite by coincidence, I first read the story when I happened to take the July 1987 issue of Asimov’s with me on our road trip to Scottsbluff to see the Great American Coast-to-Coast eclipse of 2017. The stars (and the Moon) move in mysterious ways.
Even if you do come back. They say you really do travel in time and that you really can change things if you try hard enough.
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The Grandfather Problem


Purely as a scientific experiment, physicist Harold Levett decides to go back in time to kill his grandfather.
“It’s nothing personal,” I say. “It’s strictly a scientific question . . .
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  • Definite Time Travel