Barry N. Malzberg

writer
Short Story

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  • by Barry N. Malzberg
  • in Demon Kind, edited by Roger Elwood (Avon Books, March 1973)
Donald Alan Freem is only eight, but he’s been institutionalized because of delusions that a time-traveling alien gave him the power to make people do whatever he wants.
I made you say that.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
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  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

On the Nature of Time

A boy grows up hating his father; hence, when the boy invents a time machine, he uses it to go back to kill his father before his own conception.
When I was sixteen I wished that the dream of my father’s murder had not been a dream at all.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Starry Night

A visage of the universe exploding bounces back and forth between a space-faring priest, an epileptic six-year-old in our day, and Vincent Van Gogh.
For the first time she is a little scared. She wishes that she were in her room, not in this space car with the stars glowing and exploding like the stars in Mr. Gogh’s painting.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The Man Who Murdered Mozart

In the late 21st century, frustrated violin player Howard Beasley and his six friends make a plan to kidnap Mozart from his death bed, so that Beasley can get him to finish his Requiem and thereby ride the crest of the ensuing admiration to becoming the head of the world.
That question is beyond me. Try asking Mozart.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel