Another Place, Another Time: Five Stories by Max G. Bernard

A short anthology of stories by Max G. Bernard. Four science fiction stories and a semi-autobiographical tale of the 1960's. Includes: "If Only," "Second Time Around," "Meeting of the Minds," "Warm Summer Night," and "The Reader Suffers the Loss of Dostoyevsky." If Only... His future self told him his story would win awards. But he knew it was not to be. Not on this ordinary mundane world... Second Time Around He sought to reach his destiny. But all these time travelers from the future kept trying to interfere. And he says: "I am not a crook, I am a ..." Meeting of the Minds The inhabitants of Mars had a serious products liability claim to pursue against a human corporation. And a new law clerk on the Interplanetary Supreme Court, assigned to help write the opinion, faces a challenging task... Warm Summer Night Changing Weather. A man and his dog. And an encounter. In the not too distant future? The Reader Suffers the Theft of Dostoyevsky Who stole my entire collection of Dostoyevsky's books during a party at my home one evening forty years ago, and why?