Donald Franson

writer
Short Story

One Time in Alexandria


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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Package Deal

  • by Donald Franson
  • in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980)

Vernon Lewis has a theoretical idea for a time machine, but no money to build it, so he hatches a plan to send himself various money-making artifacts from the future and use the money to build the machine that will send the items back—and one day, in the afternoon mail, the package arrives.
He ripped the tape off, unwrapped the brown paper. There it was—an almanac.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel