Short Story
Air Raid
- by John Varley
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Spring 1977
Mandy snatches doomed people from the past in order to populate her war-decimated time.
I had to choose between a panic if the fathead got them to thinking, and a possible panic from the flash of the gun. But when a 20th gets to talking about his “rights” and what he is “owed,&rdauo; things can get out of hand.