Biggy Winter

translator
Short Story

What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper

  • by Robert Silverberg
  • in Infinity Four, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer Books, November 1972)

When all eleven families on Redford Crescent receive a newspaper from the middle of next week, the result is a hastily called neighborhood meeting and an assortment of get-rich-quick plans. —Michael Main
Which sounds more fantastic? That someone would take the trouble of composing an entire fictional edition of the Times setting it in type printing it and having it delivered or that through some sort of fluke of the fourth dimension we’ve been allowed a peek at next week’s newspaper?
A hairless man (or possibly an android) emerges from a giant rectangular portal
                with a puzzled expression.
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel