 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. 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. Tonight or tomorrow night at the latest he must contact his two fellows and report that Earth was a planetary paradise. An expeditionary force to wipe the grotesque civilizations of Earth out of existence would, of course, be necessary before the first units of new Hordes could be landed. For three months he had lived with people who loved, hated, wept and sacrificed for reasons that he had never known existed.
 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