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Time and Time Again

H. Beam Piper

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To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both
uld find no newspapers or dated periodicals, but he knew that it was prior to July 18, 1946. On that day, his fourteenth birthday, his father had given him a light .22 rifle, and it had been hung on a pair of rustic forks on the wall. It was not there now, nor ever had been. On the table, he saw a boys' book of military aircraft, with a clean, new dustjacket; the flyleaf was inscribed: To Allan Hartley, from his father, on his thirteenth birthday, 7/18 '45. Glancing out the window at the foliage on the trees, he estimated the date at late July or early August, 1945; that would make him just thirteen.

His clothes were draped on a chair beside the bed. Stripping off his pajamas, he donned shorts, then sat down and picked up a pair of lemon-colored socks, which he regarded with disfavor. As he pulled one on, a church bell began to clang. St. Boniface, up on the hill, ringing for early Mass; so this was Sunday. He paused, the second sock in his hand.

There was no question that his present environment was actual. Yet, on the other hand, he possessed a set of memories completely at variance with it. Now, suppose, since his environment were not an illusion, everything else were? Suppose all these troublesome memories were no more than a dream? Why, he was just little Allan Hartley, safe in his room on a Sunday morning, badly scared by a nightmare! Too much science fiction, Allan; too many comic books!

That was a wonderfully comforting thought, and he hugged it to him contentedly. It lasted all the while he was buttoning up his shirt and pulling on his pants, but when he reached for his shoes, it evaporated. Ever since he had wakened, he realized, he had been occupied with thoughts utterly incomprehensible to any thirteen-year-old; even thinking in words that would have been so much Sanscrit to himself at thirteen. He shook his head regretfully. The just-a-dream hypothesis went by the deep six.

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Alex 10/24/2023
This started off as a fairly average short story about a boy growing up in a rural area. Then something strange happens to the boy. He wakes up and he is different. A neighbor asks to borrow a gun and the boy gives him a luger pistol, showing him how to operate the gun properly. While it may seem wi
Benjamin 06/18/2021
In the future, a renowned chemist and author is injured during World War Three. On the battlefield, he is administered with a drug that sends him to sleep ... only to then wake up in his thirteen-year-old body, back in August, 1945.

This story takes a brilliant concept I have always found to be a ca
Oleksandr 07/28/2018
This short story, published in 1947, is one of the earliest examples of time travel story with changeable future/past. Earlier stories usually assumed that the whole timeline is fixed, so even if you can move forward (The Time Machine) or backward (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court), you c
Adam 01/03/2016
After a wartime explosion caught war correspondent Allan Hartley unawares he finds himself flung helplessly back through time and into the body of his own twelve year old self. Going are the muddy trenches of World War III and brutal battles of his future, in there place Allan finds a father he has

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