A história é a novela de Robert Silverberg, em 1972, {Now + n Now - n} ' 1 ( também no majipoor.com ) um vencedor do Locust de 1973 e altamente antologizado .
A descrição em majipoor lê
A man with the telepathic ability to communicate with himself through time uses his power to play the stock market. Everything goes fine until a woman with a power of her own shows up. The title of this story is printed differently in every publication where I've seen it. Sometimes it's in brackets, sometimes not. In the story, plain parentheses are used.
e a história se abre
All had been so simple, so elegant so profitable for ourselves. And then we met the lovely Selene and nearly were undone. She came into our live during our regular transmission hour on Wednesday, October 7, 1987, between six and seven P.M. Central European Time. The moneymaking hour. I was in satisfactory contact with myself and also with myself [...]
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1 Em Além da zona segura (uma coleção do trabalho do autor) o título é formatado como matemática com as duas fases empilhadas entre parênteses. No LaTeX eu iria duplicá-lo como $$\left\{ \begin{array}{c} \text{Now} + n \ \text{Now} - n \end{array}\right\}$$ .