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possibly give them all the credit that they deserve.
Dave Grossman gave me the idea for the ending,

but the rest must remain unnamed.
Baen Books by Leo Frankowski

A Boy and His Tank

Fata Morgana

Conrad's Time Machine
Forward

Many of my books were a long time getting finished, but unless I
live to be a hundred, this one is the record setter.

I was in high school in the fifties when I asked my self the classic
science fiction question, "What if?" In this case, it was what if time
travel were really possible? I wasn't concerned with the paradoxes
that other writers had explored to more than completion. I was
wondering what else you could do with it.

My first attempts at writing were pretty amateurish. I didn't know
much about writing, but having cut my teeth on Robert Heinlein
juveniles, I knew good writing from bad. Wisely, I kept my
smudged pages to myself. Anyway, I was too busy flunking out of
Senior English to have much time for anything else. Back then, I
had some truly wretched English teachers, who forced the poetry
and Shakespeare that I had loved down my throat so hard that I
soon hated it and himЧand them. I eventually regained my love for
it and him, but never for them. It never occurred to me that I would
end up as a professional writer.

Not when I had some really great science teachers, who knew their
subjects and taught them well. A career in science, technology,
and/or maybe business seemed to be my obvious life path.

Still, the thoughts kept on welling up, like bubbles in a cesspool. If
you could move something, maybe even yourself, from one
position in the space-time continuum to any other position, then
you would immediately have effectively infinite wealth and power.
You could always win the lotteries, always buy the best stock on
the market, always bet on the winning horse.

So, with that going for you, what would you do with your life, aside
from getting filthy rich? Well? No quick answer? I didn't have one
either. It took me forty-three years to work it out, and even then it
took the help of my good friend, Lieutenant Colonel David
Grossman to finally give me a good ending for the story.