Murray Leinster

Well, then, have you ever read anything by Wells? The ‘Time Machine,’ for instance?

Because the article on dominant coordinates had appeared in the Journal of Physics and had dealt with a state of things in which the normal coordinates of everyday existence were assumed to have changed their functions; when the coordinates of time, the vertical, the horizontal and the lateral changed places and a man went east to go up and west to go “down” and ran his streat-numbers in a fourth dimension.

There are an indefinite nubmer of possible futures, any one of which we would encounter if we took the proper ‘forks” in time.

“These,” said Pete calmly, “are my fiancée.”

You’ve heard of time-traveling. Well, this is time-talking. You’re talking to yourself—that’s me—and I’m talking to myself—that’s you—and it looks like we’ve got a mighty good chance to get rich.