The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 (published 1976)
Time and Again, and Overtime (Science fiction by Doodles Weaver)
With trembling pseudopods, Rork Glanf tore away the Earth-Girl's space-suit.
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SCIENCE FICTION BY DOODLES WEAVER
Time and again, and overtime
SEATED IN THE TIME-BINDING HARNESS, and with a smile that could only mean
sinister self-assurance, Rork Glanf,
inter-stellar spy from Ganymede II posing as Professor Aych Gentry of the
Cybernetics-Semantics Laboratory,
Earthian Division, pressed the nuclear stub which would release the tensor force
fields surrounding him and propel him into another space-time phase. Even as his
ducleum-covered waldo made contact with the magnetic knob, Glanf-Gentry reviewed
quickly what he must do in the
next few moments.
Immediately on arriving in the year he was born, he would enter the place of his
birth, disguise himself as an
intern, steal into the maternity ward, and surreptitiously exchange two infants
in their cribs-himself and his twin brother-thus causing a rupture in the past
that would enable him to return to the present as King of the Galaxy,
continued
Copyright 1957 by Trump, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
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