Moe Berg
by Rick Wilber
At the end of Wilber’s first Moe Berg story, Moe himself admits that he doesn’t know
what’s going on, and I admit that I’m in the same boat—but I can tell you that that
was the first story that I read in the Moe Berg subgenre of time travel stories. In this
case, Red Sox catcher Moe Berg travels (as he did in real life) to Zurich with the
mission to kill Heisenberg, but this is only one of many Moe Berg lives; in many of those
lives he interacts with a beautiful young woman and seeming time-travel agent who only
sometimes encourages him to kill Heisenberg. You can also read about Moe in one other of
Wilber’s alternate history stories and at least one independently conceived story by
Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
But I have to admit I’m not real sure what’s going on here.
“Moe Berg” by Rick Wilber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2012.