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Griff grunted. "Well, anyway, I hope you do. Especially now that there's a
whole new area waiting for us to work in."
"You mean changin' the past?" Morgan put in quietly.
Something about the way he said that... "You okay, Morgan?" I asked, craning
my neck to look at him.
His expression, too, was... strange. "Listen," he said, nodding toward the TV.
I shifted my attention to the set. "...will seek out those responsible for
this cowardly attack on me—and through me on the American people. I am
further directing the Pentagon to draw up contingency plans for punitive
military action should we find evidence of foreign governmental
involvement..."
I licked my lips. "He sounds serious."
"He's angry, and he's bitter," Kristin said. "He lost a lot of friends on that
plane."
Morgan took a deep breath, exhaled it slowly. "Tell me," he said slowly, "any
of you ever heard o'
Hezekiah?"
Griff glanced a frown toward me. "One of the kings of ancient Israel, wasn't
he?"
"Of Judah, yes," Morgan nodded. "A good one, too... except that when God told
him it was time for him to die, he fought and kicked against the decision. And
God backed down—gave him another fifteen years to live."
A cold shiver worked its way up my back. "And...?"
"And durin' that time he had himself a son who wound up bein' one of the worst
kings Judah ever had.
And helped to destroy the whole country."
I looked back at the TV.... at the image of the man whose death I'd helped to
reverse. "I hope, quietly, "that kind of history doesn't repeat itself.
Morgan nodded. "Me, too."
Acknowledgments
"Ernie" was first published in
Analog, September 1979 issue. Copyright © 1979 by Davis
Publications, Inc.
"Raison d'Etre" was first published in
Analog, October 1981 issue. Copyright © 1981 by Davis
Publications, Inc.
"The Price of Survival" was first published in
Analog, June 1981 issue. Copyright © 1981 by
Davis Publications, Inc.
"Between A Rock and A High Place" was first published in
Analog, July 1982 issue. Copyright
© 1982 by Davis Publications, Inc.
"Houseguest" was first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January
1982 issue. Copyright © 1982 by Mercury Press, Inc.
"Time Bomb" was first published in
New Destinies, May 1988 issue. Copyright © 1988 by
Timothy Zahn.
"The President's Doll" was first published in
Analog, July 1987 issue. Copyright © 1987 by
Davis Publications, Inc.
"Banshee" was first published in
Analog, September 1987 issue. Copyright © 1987 by Davis
Publications, Inc.
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