Ben Franklin’s Laser
by Doug Beason
It appears that the sun will go nova in 75 hours, which leaves Grayson to go back in time
to give a boost to science in Ben Franklin’s time.
It sounded nice and simple: allow Ben Franklin to invent the laser and let the technology
casade. Grow enough so that in five hundred years we’d have something to get us out of
this mess.
“Ben Franklin’s Laser” by Doug Beason, in Analog,
mid-December 1990.