Time Trap
Roger Tyson is caught in a madcap changewar between aliens and time travelers from the
future
. . . it would be our great privilege to bring to the
hypergalactic masses, for the first time in temporal stasis, a glimpse of life on a
simpler, more meaningless, and therefore highly illuminating scale. I pictured the proud
intellects of Ikanion Nine, the lofty abstract cerebra of Yoop Two, the swarm-awareness
of Vr One-ninety-nine, passing through these displays at so many megaergs per
ego-complex, gathering insights into their own early evolutionary history. I hoped to see
the little ones, their innocent organ clusters aglow, watching with shining radiation
sensors as primitive organisms split atoms with stone axes, invented the wheel and the
betatron, set forth on their crude Cunarders to explore the second dimension
.
. .