Short Fiction · Character
Major Fred Benson
A Union officer flung fifty years forward, he tests the future's earnest certainties with a joke about baseball and a stubborn grip on his own time.
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Also known as Fred Benson, Fred, Captain Benson
First appearance: rebel raider
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Benson arrives in a future where competitive sports are banned as violent and where a Guide's followers explain history to him with patient condescension. He keeps the dollar bill that proves his displacement, unwilling…
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