Dead Past, the (1956) [Short Story]
by Isaac Asimov
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Summary
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A professor of ancient history is frustrated when the government refuses him permission to use a "time-viewing" device for his research and convinces a young physicist to build one for him illegally. The consequences are not quite what he expected.
Original title: The Dead Past
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Technology
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Earth Is Room Enough (1957) [Collection]
Author: Isaac Asimov
Edge of Tomorrow, the (1985) [Collection]
Author: Isaac Asimov
World Treasury of Science Fiction, the (1989) [Anthology]
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Alfred Bester
, Isaac Asimov
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, John Updike
, Stanislaw Lem
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Frederik Pohl
, Samuel R. Delany
, Thomas M. Disch
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, Anthony Burgess
, Keith Roberts
, Larry Niven
, John Varley
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Sheckley
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Arkady Strugatsky
, Boris Strugatsky
, Boris Vian
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Lewis Padgett
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Joanna Russ
, John W. Campbell
, Steve Allen
, Josef Nesvadba
, Karl-Michael Armer
, Gérard Klein
, Manuel van Loggem
, Kirill Bulychev
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
, Kono Tensei
, John Berryman
, Rene Rebetez-Cortes
, Annemarie van Ewyck
Complete Stories: Volume 1, the (1990) [Collection]
Author: Isaac Asimov
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