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Mack Reynolds
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The Business, as Usual
- by Mack Reynolds
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1952
A time traveler from the 20th century has only 15 minutes to negotiate a trade for an artifact to prove that he’s been to the 30th century.
“Look, don’t you get it? I’m a time traveler. They picked me to send to the future. I’m important.”
“Ummm. But you must realize that we have time travelers turning up continuously these days.”
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Compounded Interest
- by Mack Reynolds
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1956
“Mr. Smith” shows up in 1300 A.D. to invest ten gold coins at 10% annual interest with Sior Marin Goldini’s firm, after which he shows up every 100 years to provide guidance.
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Unborn Tomorrow
- by Mack Reynolds
- Astounding, June 1959
Private investigator Simon and his assistant Betty are hired by a curious old man to hunt up some time travelers at Oktoberfest. Betty is game, but Simon, sporting a major hangover, is uncharacteristically reticent.
“Why?”
Betty looked to her boss for assistance. None was forthcoming. There ought to be some very quick, positive, definite answer. She said, “Well, for one thing, paradox. Suppose you had a time machine and traveled back a hundred years or so and killed your own great-grandfather. Then how could you ever be born?”
“Confound it if I know,” the little fellow growled. “How?”translate
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Gun for Hire
- by Mack Reynolds
- in Analog, December 1960
Hit man Joe Prantera is transported to the year 2133 to knock off a bad guy since nobody of that time is capable of doing violence.
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Caveat Time Traveller
- by Mack Reynolds
- in Nature, 2 April 2009
Benford notes that his 2009 story must have come from a childhood memory of Mack Reynolds’ nearly identical 1952 story, “The Business, As Usual.”
I must look it up sometime. I knew Mack, too, visited him in Mexico in 1966. Odd how the mind works.
