The Agent
by Christopher Priest and David Redd
Egon Rettmer—citizen of neutral Silte, but an agent for the Nord-Deutschland in their
war against the Masurians—uses time travel for his communiques and, as he realizes on
the eve of the N-D invasion, there’s the potential to use it for more, maybe even to
get a good start with that entrancing visitor, Heidi.
She was behaving towards him, literally, as if he had been in two places at
once. . . as if, this morning, he had met her and told her of
the escape plans he had only half started to form a few minutes ago!
“The Agent” by Christopher Priest and David Redd, in Aries, 1, edited by John Grant (David and
Charles, 1979).