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as crass as assassination; the specific method Hilda mentioned was used. A high
school boy without a rubber was provided with one by a field operative, and the
little bastard who became Nehemiah Scudder was never bom. So time line
two-mine-was split and time line eleven was created, allee samee but without
Nehemiah Scudder, the Prophet. Bound to be better, right?
"Wrong. In my time line World War Three, the nuclear war-sometimes known by
other names-badly damaged Europe but did not spread; North America under the
Prophet had opted out of international affairs. In time line eleven the war
started a little sooner, in the Middle East, spread to all the world
overnight... and a hundred years later it was still impossible to find any life
superior to cockroaches on the land masses of what had once been the cool green
hills of Earth. Take it, Hilda."
"Thank you, too much! Lazarus leaves me with a planet glowing in the dark
to show why we need better prediction methods. We hope to use Adam
Selene-supervising computer Holmes IV known as 'Mike'-the programs and memories
that make him unique-to tie the best computers of Tertius and some other planets
into a mammoth logic that can correctly project the results of a defined change
in history... so that we won't swap Nehemiah Scudder-who can be endured-for a
ruined planet that cannot be endured. Lazarus, should I mention the
supersnooperscope?"
"You just did, so you had better
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