Short Story
Flux
- by Michael Moorcock and Barrington J. Bayley
- New Worlds, July 1963
When the government of the European Economic Community has no idea what to do next, they send Marshall-in-Chief Max File ten years into the future to find out the eventual effects of their actions.
Although this story was too abstract for my taste, I did enjoy the early presentation of what today might be called a Boltzmann Brain.
Although this story was too abstract for my taste, I did enjoy the early presentation of what today might be called a Boltzmann Brain.
The world from which he had come, or any other world for that matter, could dissipate into its component elements at any instant, or could have come into being at any previous instant, complete with everybody’s memories!
