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Trouble in Time

Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth

First published September 1962
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A young male physicist invents a time machine based upon a mathematical paradox, and in a state of mutual drunkenness uses it to send a female chemical engineer 800 years into the future, where she finds humanity facing an apparently unavoidable threat.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1962 Cover The Wonder Effect Ballantine Books Collection 83
November 1962 Cover The Wonder Effect Ballantine Books Collection 83
1967 Cover The Wonder Effect Gollancz Collection 84
July 1969 Cover The Wonder Effect Ballantine Books Collection 83
July 1969 Cover The Wonder Effect Ballantine Books Collection 83
September 1974 Cover The Wonder Effect Panther Collection 93
July 1980 Cover Before the Universe and Other Stories Bantam Books Collection 33
February 1987 Cover Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth Baen Books Collection 143
February 1987 Cover Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth Baen Books Collection 143