Terra is preparing to strike the Centaurian Empire, and Security Commissioner Reinhart watches the giant SRB computers for the moment the odds turn in his favour. Then a time-research accident drags Thomas Cole, a horse-and-wagon fix-it man from 1913, into the future, and the machines can no longer predict anything.
An early novella from Space Science Fiction in 1953, already full of the questions Dick would chase for thirty years. Download the free EPUB.