Help me Find a Story
I'm trying to find a story, and I know there are a couple of S.F. junkies who read here every now and again, so maybe you can help.
It's a short story that I read a while back. Like, the late 80s or so...I was still in grade school, at any rate. It was in a mass market paperback anthology I checked out of the library. And the anthology was something like Missions to Other Worlds...except that's not it. The anthology title was _______ to ______ ______, in that pattern. And there was a painted picture on the cover of a starship which looked vaguely like the Enterprise from the original Star Trek, but just different enough not to be confused so much with that ship.
I don't know who edited the anthology.
I don't know who wrote the story, but here's what it's about:
A guy has built a time machine, and he finally uses it to go back in time, and he goes back to different time periods: the Civil War, the American Revolution and to Florence during the Renaissance.
And somewhere along the line, he causes a change in the timeline in which he no longer invented his time machine, and is therefore trapped in the past.
And it's all meant to be funny, more than hard SF, so the science isn't as much a concern.
Does that ring a bell with anybody?
I bring it up only because my favorite pseudo-science conspiracy came up in conversation last night: There is a possibility that the Vatican controls a Time Machine.
I like that one because it comes from so far out in left field.
It's almost as good as Nikola Tesla causing the Tunguska Blast with a suped-up version of one of his Tesla Coils.
Which is ridiculous, because we all know a low density meteorite or other cosmic body exploded that day in 1908 over Siberia, laying waste to thousands of kilometers of land.
But did you know that the asteroid was brought to Earth by Teddy Roosevelt? That's right. Teddy Roosevelt brought the asteroid to Earth using his magical and mysterious telekinetic powers. And he did it to impress a bunch of little kids who lived around Washington DC.
Also, Teddy taught dogs to smoke.
He really wasn't that nice a guy.
I'm trying to find a story, and I know there are a couple of S.F. junkies who read here every now and again, so maybe you can help.
It's a short story that I read a while back. Like, the late 80s or so...I was still in grade school, at any rate. It was in a mass market paperback anthology I checked out of the library. And the anthology was something like Missions to Other Worlds...except that's not it. The anthology title was _______ to ______ ______, in that pattern. And there was a painted picture on the cover of a starship which looked vaguely like the Enterprise from the original Star Trek, but just different enough not to be confused so much with that ship.
I don't know who edited the anthology.
I don't know who wrote the story, but here's what it's about:
A guy has built a time machine, and he finally uses it to go back in time, and he goes back to different time periods: the Civil War, the American Revolution and to Florence during the Renaissance.
And somewhere along the line, he causes a change in the timeline in which he no longer invented his time machine, and is therefore trapped in the past.
And it's all meant to be funny, more than hard SF, so the science isn't as much a concern.
Does that ring a bell with anybody?
I bring it up only because my favorite pseudo-science conspiracy came up in conversation last night: There is a possibility that the Vatican controls a Time Machine.
I like that one because it comes from so far out in left field.
It's almost as good as Nikola Tesla causing the Tunguska Blast with a suped-up version of one of his Tesla Coils.
Which is ridiculous, because we all know a low density meteorite or other cosmic body exploded that day in 1908 over Siberia, laying waste to thousands of kilometers of land.
But did you know that the asteroid was brought to Earth by Teddy Roosevelt? That's right. Teddy Roosevelt brought the asteroid to Earth using his magical and mysterious telekinetic powers. And he did it to impress a bunch of little kids who lived around Washington DC.
Also, Teddy taught dogs to smoke.
He really wasn't that nice a guy.
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