The novel is about a man from a dysfunctional future sent to the past to try to change enough to create a better future, but every change changes both past and future, with little positive change.
}, year = {1986}, month = {01/1986}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, note = {Sections originally in\ Analog\ as \“Child of the Sun\” 97.3 (March 1977): 74-90, 92-98; \“End of the World\” 101.1 (January 1984): 70-88; \“Man of the Hour\” 104.10 (October 1984): 106-28; \“Touch of the Hour\” 105.2 (February 1985): 106-29; \“Mother of the Year\” 105.4 (April 1985): 138-58; and \“Will of the Wisp\” 105.5 (May 1985): 54-76.
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