Time Fuze

by Randall Garrett

Time Fuze by Randall Garrett

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction

8 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Randall Garrett's full name was Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett. For more information about him see https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?239

He was married to Vicki Ann Heydron

His pseudonyms include: Gordon Randall Garrett, Gordon Aghill, Grandal Barretton, Alexander Blade, Ralph Burke, Gordon Garrett, David Gordon, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart, Blake MacKenzie, Jonathan Blake MacKenzie, Seaton Mckettrig, Clyde (T.) Mitchell, Mark Phillips (with Laurence Janifer), Robert Randall, Leonard G. Spencer, S.M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance.

Reviews

[Arthur Chappell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clever 'whoops' flash fiction tale in which a starship crew from Earth arrive by a new star just in time to see it go supernova and realize their own propulsion drive caused it. This creates an obvious problem. How can they get home again without having the same effect on our own Sun, Sol? I do enjoy these simple yet profound fables from science fiction's Golden Age

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖊 My review: A shocking science fiction short story about the destruction of Sol.
✔️Published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 3, No. 1, March 1954 .
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🟣 Media form on Kindle version.
🟢 Media form found on Project Gutenberg.
🔲 Excerpts of note:

🔹Commander Benedict kept his eyes on the rear plate as he activated the intercom. "All right, cut the power. We ought to be safe enough here." As he released the intercom, Dr. Leicher, of the astronomical staff, stepped up to his side.

🔸 Benedict took his fingers off the keys and turned around in his chair. "What is it, Doctor?" Leicher frowned at the papers in his hands. "I've been doing some work on the probability of that explosion happening just as it did, and I've come up with some rather frightening figures. As I said before, the probability was small. A little calculation has given us some information which makes it even smaller. For instance: with a possible error of plus or minus two seconds Alpha Centauri A began to explode the instant we came out of ultradrive!

🔹 Commander Benedict took off his cap and looked at the damp stain in the sweatband. "Nevertheless, Doctor, it is damned unnerving to come out of ultradrive a couple of hundred million miles from the first star ever visited by man and have to turn tail and run because the damned thing practically blows up in your face." Leicher could see that Benedict was upset; he rarely used the same profanity twice in one sentence.

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[Vitor Frazão · Rating 4 out of 5]

A estória é tão simples e tem por trás um princípio tão básico que chega a ser embaraçoso admitir quão me deixou a pensar no final. É uma daquelas narrativas em que o impacto está todo na última página e, mesmo não nos apanhando completamente desprevenido, hits us like a bag of hammers.