At a science-fiction convention many years ago I heard a friend of mine say to an annoying young man who was trying to interrupt our conversation, “Go away, kid, or I’ll change your future.” Whereupon I said, without thinking much about it, “No, tell him that you’ll change his PAST,” and suddenly I realized that I had handed myself a very nice story idea.

I wrote it in January, 1982 – its intricate time-travel plot unfolded for me with marvelous clarity as I worked – and sent it off to PLAYBOY, which was publishing a lot of my science fiction back then. It ran in the July, 1983 issue, and a few years later Miramax bought it for filming, but I’m still waiting for them to make the movie. I do love writing time-travel stories, though, and this is a particular favorite of mine among all of that sort that I’ve done.]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:05:02 +0000 es Copyright 202 6BiblioEteca Technologies SL