Short Story
By His Bootstraps
- by Robert A. Heinlein
- Astounding, October 1941
Bob Wilson, Ph.D. student, throws himself 30,000 years into the future, where he tries to figure out what began this whole adventure.
Evan Zweifel gave me a copy of this magazine as a present!
Evan Zweifel gave me a copy of this magazine as a present!
Wait a minute now—he was under no compulsion. He was sure of that. Everything he did and said was the result of his own free will. Even if he didn’t remember the script, there were some things that he knew “Joe” hadn’t said. “Mary had a little lamb,” for example. He would recite a nursery rhyme and get off this damned repetitive treadmill. He opened his mouth—
