ARM

Author:

Niven, Larry

Publication date:

1975-01

Publication type:

Short Story

Published:

Epoch, edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg

Opus No.:

Setting:

Known Space: Gil Hamilton

I.U.C.:

K.S. 13 (2126)

Characters:

Gil Hamilton; Luke Garner; Jackson Bera; Julio Ordaz; Taffy Grimes; Raymond Sinclair; Officer-One Valpredo; Janice Sinclair; Andrew Porter; Bernath Peterfi

Summary:

A murder mystery with a quantum twist: Reclusive inventor Raymond Sinclair is found with his head smashed in, apparently by the poker from his fireplace rack... and his mummified body is trapped inside the active temporal field of his new interstellar drive sitting in the middle of his living room. [A Gil Hamilton Story]

Notes:

Murder of Raymond Sinclair, inventor of Sinclair Molecule Chain and an inertial-reduction field

Reprints:

anthology, The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh;
The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s, ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1992;
Sci-Fi Private Eye, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1997;
Flatlander
Long Arm of Gil Hamilton, The