Short Story
The Nuse Man
- by Margaret St. Clair
- in Galaxy, February 1960
An intertemporal trader comes for a visit after a difficult time caused by his providing unlimited bricks to the ancient Sumerians. —Michael Main
I didn’t have my chronnox—they’d arrested me in too much of a hurry for that—so I couldn’t get into another time. And I had no way of getting in touch with the home office. Certainly I was scared. And then there was the indignity—someone from when I come from, to be killed by a lot of primitive button heads. It made me sore.
