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Nice Girl with 5 Husbands

by Fritz Leiber
On an artist retreat, a man gets blown 100 years into the future where, among other things, group marriage and group parenting are the norm.
— Michael Main
“Who are you talking about?”

“My husbands.” She shook her head dolefully. “To find five more difficult men would be positively Martian.”

“Nice Girl with 5 Husbands” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1951.

Catch That Martian

by Damon Knight
“Catch That Martian” by Damon Knight, Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952.

Game for Blondes

by John D. MacDonald
“Game for Blondes” by John D. MacDonald, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952.

Teething Ring

by James Causey
“Teething Ring” by James Causey, Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953.

The Haertel Complex

Beep

by James Blish
“Beep” by James Blish, Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1954.

This Side Up

by Raymond E. Banks
“This Side Up” by Raymond E. Banks, Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1954.

The Mapmakers

by Frederik Pohl
“The Mapmakers” by Frederik Pohl, Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1955.

Man of Distinction

by Michael Shaara
“Man of Distinction” by Michael Shaara, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1956.

Of All Possible Worlds

by William Tenn
Max Alben Mac Albin is genetically predisposed to survive time travel, so he’s the natural choice to go back in time and shift the course of a missile that shifted the course of history.
— Michael Main
Now! Now to make a halfway decent world! Max Alben pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
Now! Now to make a halfway interesting world! Mac Albin pulled the little red switch toward him.
flick!
“Of All Possible Worlds” by William Tenn, Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1956.

Time in the Round

by Fritz Leiber
“Time in the Round” by Fritz Leiber, Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1957.

The Deaths of Ben Baxter

by Robert Sheckley
“The Deaths of Ben Baxter” by Robert Sheckley, Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1957.

Carbon Copy

by Clifford D. Simak
“Carbon Copy” by Clifford D. Simak, Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1957.

MUgwump Four

by Robert Silverberg
Oh, dear! Albert Miller has dialed a wrong number on the Mugwump-4 exchange, and the mutants who answered have decided that the only solution is to catapult him into the future where he won’t be able to upset their plans for World Domination.
— Michael Main
At this stage in our campaign, we can take no risks. You’ll have to go. Prepare the temporal centrifuge, Mordecai.
“Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.

Crime Machine

by Robert Bloch
“Crime Machine” by Robert Bloch, Galaxy Magazine, October 1961.

The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass

by Frederik Pohl
This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the editorial pages of Pohl’s Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation.
— Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through 20th century medicine.
“The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.

The Age of the Pussyfoot

by Frederik Pohl
The Age of the Pussyfoot by Frederik Pohl, 3 pts., Galaxy Magazine, October 1965 to February 1966.

Galactic Consumer Reports No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines

by John Brunner
“Galactic Consumer Reports No. 1: Inexpensive Time Machines” by John Brunner, Galaxy Magazine, December 1965.

We’re Coming through the Window

by Barry N. Maltzberg
“We’re Coming through the Window” by Barry N. Maltzberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1967.

All the Myriad Ways

by Larry Niven
Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble suspects that the recent spate of suicides and violent crime is somehow connected to the discovery that the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics is real and each of those worlds can be traveled to.
— Michael Main
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? Trimble didn’t understand the theory, though God knows he’d tried. The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision every made could go both ways. Every choice ever made by every man, woman and child on Earth was reversed in the universe next door.
“All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven, in Galaxy, October 1968.

When You Hear the Tone

by Thomas N. Scortia
“When You Hear the Tone” by Thomas N. Scortia, Galaxy Magazine, January 1971.

The State 0.1

Rammer

by Larry Niven
“Rammer” by Larry Niven, Galaxy Magazine, December 1971.

Nobody Here but Us Shadows

by Sam J. Lundwall
“Nobody Here but Us Shadows” by Sam J. Lundwall, Galaxy, August 1975.

The State 0.2

Down and Out

by Larry Niven
“Down and Out” by Larry Niven, Galaxy Magazine, February 1976.

The State 0.3

Children of the State

by Larry Niven
Children of the State by Larry Niven, 3 pts., Galaxy Magazine, September 1976 to November 1976.
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