Novelette
Breckenridge and the Continuum
- by Robert Silverberg
- in Showcase, edited by Roger Elwood (Harper and Row, June 1973)
Wall Street investor Noel Breckenridge has been summoned to the far future, possibly to tell stories, but is there a larger purpose? —Michael Main
Am I supposed to tell you a lot of diverting stories? Will I have to serve you six months out of the year, forevermore? Is there some precious object I’m obliged to bring you from the bottom of the sea? Maybe you have a riddle that I’m supposed to answer.
