Novelette
Retroactive
- by Bob Shaw
- in Universe 2, edited by Terry Carr (Ace Books, 1972)
David Surgenar, a veteran of the Cartographical Service—finds himself millions of years back in time on an alien planet with three soldiers and a pregnant female who may hold the key to the whole alien race. —Michael Main
He had been unwilling to admit his own fears that Man, perfector of a type of thinking which had given him mastery of the three spatial dimensions, had finally encountered a cooler, more judicious culture which had established its dominions in the long gray estuaries of time.
