Аннотация
THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE
by Joe Haldeman
For Susan Allison:
about time.
1
The story would have been a lot different if Matt’ssupervisor had been watching him when the machine first went away.
The older man was hunched over his oscilloscope screen, staring into the green pool of light like a tweedy and corpulent bird of prey, fiddling with two knobs, intent on a throbbing bright oval that wiggled around, eluding his control. Matt Fuller could have been in another room, another state.
Sleet rattled on dark windows. Matt put down his screwdriver and pushed the RESET button on the new calibrator, a shoe-box-sized machine.
The machine disappeared.
He stared for about one second. When he was able to close his mouth and open it again, he said, “Dr. Marsh! Look!”
Dr. Marsh pulled all of himself reluctantly from the round screen. “What is it, Matthew?”
The machine ha...
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