Excerpt from Fredric Brown Cosmolinea B-2, MicroScience Fiction for Everyone 1.8.
THE END
Professor Jones had worked for many years on his theory of time. “I’ve finally found the key equation,” he said one day to his daughter. “Time is a field. The machine I built can manipulate this field, and even reverse it.” As he pressed a button, he said, “This should send time back, back time send should this said, button a pressed he.” “It can also reverse it, and this field manipulate,” he said. “The field is time,” he said one day to his daughter. “I’ve finally found the key equation.” “The professor Jones had worked for many years on his theory of time.”
Original title: The End, 1961
Translation: Giovanna Boselli
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