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    The Worlds of If
    The Worlds of If
    The Worlds of If
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    The Worlds of If

    By Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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    Weinbaum introduces another short story featuring the characters of Haskel van Manderpootz and Dixon Wells. Dixon Wells has become infamous for his tardiness and in "The Worlds of If", Wells explores the world of of if's, time travel, and missed opportunities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateJan 31, 2014
    ISBN9781609772321
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      The Worlds of If - Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

      The Worlds of If

      By Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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      Copyright © 2013 by Start Publishing LLC

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      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2013

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      ISBN 978-1-60977-232-1

      The Worlds Of If

      I stopped on the way to the Staten Island Airport to call up, and that was a mistake, doubtless, since I had a chance of making it otherwise. But the office was affable. We'll hold the ship five minutes for you, the clerk said. That's the best we can do.

      So I rushed back to my taxi and we spun off to the third level and sped across the Staten bridge like a comet treading a steel rainbow. I had to be in Moscow by evening, by eight o'clock, in fact, for the opening of bids on the Ural Tunnel. The Government required the personal presence of an agent of each bidder, but the firm should have known better than to send me, Dixon Wells, even though the N. J. Wells Corporation is, so to speak, my father. I have a--well, an undeserved reputation for being late to everything; something always comes up to prevent me from getting anywhere on time. It's never my fault; this time it was a chance encounter with my old physics professor, old Haskel van Manderpootz. I couldn't very well just say hello and good-bye to him; I'd been a favorite of his back in the college days of 2014.

      I missed the airliner, of course. I was still on the Staten Bridge

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