The Year of the Quiet Sun

It was a top secret government project, its funds coming quietly from the Bureau of Standards, its orders directly from the President. The project's goal was to survey the future. The survey would be made in person, by the use of the newly-developed Time Displacement Vehicle. Three specially trained men would be sent to the year 2000, and they would return with invaluable data about the problems to be faced by the government in decades to come. It seemed almost routine at first. But when the survey team reached their target they found a savage land... and awesome world they MAY have made, and they had to wonder if any woild return to tell about it. John W. Campbell Memorial Award Cover art by Michael Whelan