Novel
Space Chantey
- by R. A. Lafferty
- in Ace Double #H-56: Pity about Earth by Ernest Hill / Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968)
Lafferty rewrites The Odyssey with a time machine, called a Dong Button, featured in Chapters 3 and 4. —Fred Galvin
The Dong button was just that, a big green button with the word Dong engraved on it. You pushed it, and it went dong. Well, that was alnost too simple. Should there not be a deeper reason for it? And the small instruction plate over it didn't add much. It read: “Wrong prong, bong gong.
