Yesterday’s Paper
by Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd
Pete Harrison worries that the planned first trip to the moon might not go well, so to
ease his mind, he sneaks into the Temporal Research lab for an unauthorized trip to the
middle of next month to discern the trip’s outcome. But when he arrives, the only way
to safely find out the outcome is to track down yesterday’s newspaper, which proves
exceedingly hard.
After much careful calculation, Peter decided to set the machine to project him to that
important Friday at around eleven o’clock in the morning.
“Yesterday’s Paper” by Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd, in Other Worlds Science Fiction,
June 1953.