Breckenridge and the Continuum
by Robert Silverberg
Wall Street investor Noel Breckenridge has been summoned to the far future, possibly to
tell stories, but is there a larger purpose?
— Michael Main
Am I supposed to tell you a lot of diverting stories? Will I have to serve you six months
out of the year, forevermore? Is there some precious object I’m obliged to bring you
from the bottom of the sea? Maybe you have a riddle that I’m supposed to answer.
“Breckenridge and the Continuum” by Robert Silverberg,
in Showcase, edited by Roger Elwood (Harper and Row, June 1973).