On the Nature of Time
by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
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.
“On the Nature of Time” by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, in Amazing, September 1981.