Going Back
Several recent stories were written by my strainge-fiction persona, Eric Stringer. I wrote this one under my own name for my friend and mentor, Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson, with reverence…. A few minutes after 10 a.m. four short days after Martin Andersen turned 76, he confidently approached the Age Exchange. He reached for the door handle, then frowned. He stopped and stepped back. He’d expected something impressive. Maybe a heavy hand-carved mahogany door, or maybe something sterile and clinical, like brushed stainless steel, but certainly not this. This was a weathered wooden door with a large window set …