Thomas Edison

Tag Area: Real-World Character
Novel

Pastmaster 2

Twice Upon a Time

Custer lives! And so do Crazy Horse, Thomas Edison, and Mark Twain. History is never dead for Professor Alex Balfour, whose unusual destiny imposes on him the most extraordinary adventures of all time. —from publicity material
I can’t stop it, you know that. It’s part of me. My father could do it, hell, maybe his father could do it. It has to be genetic, as much a part of my DNA as the color of my hair. The point is not so much why or how it happens, but what the purpose of it is. What is it I’m supposed to do? And does anything I do make a difference?
A raft floats down a wide river underneath an airplane, General Custer, and Mark Twain.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Finalizing History

In early 1960, Perry Mason author Earl (not Erle) Stanley Gardner and his wife host John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Edward Teller, Ronald Reagan, Douglas MacArthur and Jackie Kennedy to discuss a shared dream in which a time-traveling alien requires them to pick one person to eliminate from history as a prerequisite to a final revision of mankind’s history. —Michael Main
If one of these people dies young, that will pay your debt.
A grid of nine black-and-white head shots of the people in “Finalizing History” by Richard K. Lyon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel