THE BUSINESS, AS USUALAUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
This is one of those stories that you write in a couple of hours, send to the agent and forget about. However, to my surprise, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction picked it up in 1951 and, since then, I have sold it to anthologies and in translation at least once a year. If I had fifty stories that sold like this, I could retire. They even put it on television once in Belgium. How you could make a TV show of it I haven’t the vaguest idea, but there you are. I suspect that long after I have gone to my reward— which is moot—“The Business, As Usual” will still crop up.
—Mack Reynolds
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“Listen,” the time traveler said to the first pedestrian who came by, “I’m from the twentieth century. I’ve only got fifteen minutes and then I’ll go
