Short Story
The Biography Project
- by H. L. Gold
- in Galaxy, September 1951
Many sf stories are called upon to provide one-way viewing of the past with no two-way interference, but few (not this one) will answer.
There were 1,000 teams of biographers, military analysts, historians, etc., to begin recording history as it actually happened—with special attention, according to Maxwell’s grant, to past leaders of industry, politics, science, and the arts, in the order named.