Short Story
Hot Tip
- by Billy Bruce Winkles
- in Analog, May 2002
Obscure physicist John Suttle receives a phone call from the future with information about his eventual fate.
As I said, I’m calling you from the twenty-fifth century. I am also a physicist. In fact, I’m the leader of a research group that’s studying space-time contortion phenomena. Recently, we discovered a way to make phone calls into the past.