 What would happen if Lewis did not finish his short stories in the timeline he was given?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Fall 1942. For Mr. Terry, that hard-hitting writer of two-gun action, had never been further west of Long Island than Elizabeth, and he had promised his wife, Ellen, that he would take the three children and herself on a trailer tour of the West that very summer. An hour later, his scars and altered cartilage already healed and painless, Thig again scraped sand over the entrance to the space ship and set out along the moonlit beach toward the nearest path running inland to his home. Men had no mates on Ortha, sex had been overthrown with all the other primitive impulses of barbarism; so he was incapable of understanding the emotions that swept through his acquired memory.
 The trip with Ellen would be off.
 He would lose his typewriter  The trip with Ellen would be off.  Outlaws would be raiding his trailer home  He would be fired from his job