Book description
Kemper had the answer; Reuter had the problem. Kemper had figured it
all out by the twenty-second century; he was a man of temporal science.
The past did not exist. The past upon which the present was based had no
credence unless it could be reconstructed, bit by tiny bit. Surrogates
would have to go back in time and become the cast of thousands. Napoleon
was needed; likewise the Kennedys, all four of them. There were those
who would have taken argument with Kemper, but Kemper, unfortunately,
was beyond dispute; in other words he, like all the other famous and
infamous, was dead. Reuter's problem was that he had gone back to Vienna
in the early 1800s to be Beethoven. Beethoven, Reuter has decided, was a
disgusting man. Someone must listen - don't they realise that it was all
a fraud? Barry N. Malzberg (1939-). Barry N. Malzberg is an American
writer, editor and agent, whose prolific career has spanned numerous
genres - most notably crime and science fiction. Malzberg was
particularly active in the science fiction scene of the early seventies,
although he became disillusioned with the market forces defining the
field, and has rarely published SF works since. His most recent activity
in the field has been in the form of advice columns for writers in the
quarterly magazine of the Science Fiction and
