The Ugly Little Boy

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(thing) by wangmu (3.8 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun May 14 2000 at 13:56:01

A short story by Isaac Asimov about scientists who discover how to bring objects from the past into a "Statis" field in the present. If the objects are removed from the Statis field, vast amounts of energy will be consumed. Also, it is easier to reach into the distant past than the nearer past. The scientists have just progressed from bringing dinosaurs and prehistoric rocks to bringing a Neanderthal child. His nurse, Miss Fellowes, comes to love him and to resent him being treated as an experimental animal rather than a child, until eventually she has to try to stop her superiors from sending him back to his own time.

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Red Dwarf insulted me	Dealing with annoyingly inquisitive children	Isaac Asimov	All he wants to be is a 6-pack and a hot ass
Boltzmann's Constant	The Cunning Little Tailor	The Winds of Change	past
Best homenode bits of accounts I have deleted	World War IV	Neandertal	Favorite Everything quotes
short story	The Bookworm Turns: An Everything Literary Quest	ki	gravitational constant
present	Neanderthal	elementary charge

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