Time and Time Again

by H. Beam Piper

At 43 years old, Allan Hartley is caught in a flash-bomb at the Battle of Buffalo, only to wake up in his own 13-year-old body on the day before Hiroshima.

Piper’s first short story impacted me because I fantasize about the same thing (perhaps we all do). What would you do? Who would you tell? What would you try to change? What would you fear changing?

Here; if you can remember the next thirty years, suppose you tell me when the War’s going to end. This one, I mean.

“Time and Time Again” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, April 1947.

He Walked Around the Horses

by H. Beam Piper

“He Walked Around the Horses” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, April 1948.

Police Operation

by H. Beam Piper

“Police Operation” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, July 1948.

Last Enemy

by H. Beam Piper

“Last Enemy” by H. Beam Piper, Astounding, August 1950.

Flight from Tomorrow

When the revolution finally comes, the dictatorial leader Hradzka escapes to the past in a time machine, but he overshoots his target and ends up in the first decade after the discovery of atomic power.

“The ‘time-machine’,” Zarvas Pol replied. “If he’s managed to get it finished, the Great Mind only knows where he may be, now. Or when.”

“Flight from Tomorrow” by H. Beam Piper, in Future Science Fiction, September/October 1950.