Project Gutenberg 2010-06-17 Public domain in the USA. 77 Cogan, Alan Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH In the Cards Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "In the Cards" by Alan Cogan is a science fiction narrative written in the mid-20th century. The story delves into the implications of time travel through a device called the Grundy Projector, allowing individuals to peer into their future for personal insight. The book explores the drastic impact of knowing one's future and how this knowledge affects relationships and life decisions. The plot centers around Gerald, who anticipates his marriage to Marge while using the time projector to glimpse their life together two years down the line. Disturbingly, he witnesses a future filled with conflict and despair between them, leading him to question whether to proceed with their wedding. As society becomes engulfed in time projection, Gerald realizes that knowing the future could deterministically dictate people's actions, often leading to self-fulfilling prophecies. Eventually, unable to cope with their predicted fate, Gerald and Marge decide to escape to the past, only to find themselves grappling with new challenges while subtly navigating their predetermined lives. The narrative raises questions about free will, destiny, and how knowledge of the future can profoundly alter human behavior, leaving readers to consider the value of uncertainty in life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32853/32853-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Time travel -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 68138 68148 2024-09-14T04:48:33.483852 2023-09-14T09:41:27.751517 text/html text/html 64804 2010-06-17T10:39:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 217762 2010-06-17T10:39:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 227262 2024-09-14T04:48:35.663813 application/epub+zip 226318 2024-09-14T04:48:34.013791 application/epub+zip 85542 2024-09-14T04:48:33.735795 application/epub+zip 266796 2024-09-14T04:48:37.073767 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 259162 2024-09-14T04:48:35.398846 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 118949 2022-09-15T06:36:53.192164 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 59935 59840 2024-09-14T04:48:33.309812 2023-09-14T09:41:27.583526 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 59826 2010-06-17T10:39:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22757 2010-06-17T10:39:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19331 2024-09-14T04:48:37.205801 application/rdf+xml 28327 2024-09-14T04:48:33.809824 image/jpeg 4774 2024-09-14T04:48:33.769789 image/jpeg 218707 2024-09-14T04:48:33.501822 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia