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Short Story

Meddler

1954

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A device that can probe the future reveals an Earth from which humanity has vanished. An investigation into the disaster tests the assumption that observing the future can be done without changing it.

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Work history

  1. no later than July 24, 1952

    Composition: no later than July 24, 1952

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. July 24, 1952

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    July 24, 1952

  3. Oct 1954

    First published Oct 1954

    Future SF