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    In the Cards
    In the Cards
    In the Cards
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    In the Cards

    By Ed Emshwiller and Alan Cogan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      In the Cards - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Cards, by Alan Cogan

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: In the Cards

      Author: Alan Cogan

      Illustrator: EMSH

      Release Date: June 17, 2010 [EBook #32853]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CARDS ***

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      In the Cards

      By ALAN COGAN

      Illustrated by EMSH

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction June 1956. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      It is one thing to safeguard the future ... and something else entirely to see someone you love cry in terror two years from now!

      The first thing I did when I bought my Grundy Projector was take a trip to about two years ahead and see what was going to happen to me. Everyone was doing it around that time; students were taking short trips into the future to learn whether or not they would pass their exams, married couples were looking ahead to see how many kids they were going to have, businessmen were going into the future to size up their prospects.

      I took the trip because I was getting married and I couldn't resist the temptation of finding out how things would work out with my fiancee Marge and myself. Not that I had any doubts about Marge, but the Grundy Projectors were guaranteed harmless and there's no point in taking chances with a serious step like marriage.

      Everybody was looking ahead then. Within a week after the Grundy Projectors were introduced, you could walk past homes every evening and see people with those shimmering bird-cages around them. Their bodies were there, but heaven knows when their minds were—months and often even years ahead of time.

      I knew exactly when to go on my first time trip. I even knew where: I'd already put a down payment on a home in the new dome housing area where Marge and I would be living after the wedding. Knowing where to go on a time trip is important. On this one, for instance, I hadn't been assigned an address yet and there were all sorts of changes in the place—buildings and streets where there had only been empty lots and sections marked off by string—and I just had to hunt until I came to our home.

      You can imagine how much more difficult finding my future self would be if I hadn't known the exact location. That's about the only major drawback to making time trips and I

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