《Romance in an Eleventh Century Recharging Station 》作者：- R F. Young...

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Mr. Young has had his distinctive stories collected in the recently published THE WORLDS OF ROBERT F. YOUNG (Simon and Schuster). His newest story for us is this surprising and charming account of the Past Reconstruction Corps, and of PRCman 3rd class, Archer Frend. ROMANCE IN AN ELEVENTH-CENTURY RECHARGING STATION by Robert F. Young ARCHER FREND WAS FAR FROM being an old hand at time-traveling, being he wasn't exactly a novice at it either. As a result when the gray trans-era void through which his time-suit was propelling him started to flicker when he still had some fifteen centuries to go, he was both alarmed and unafraid —alarmed because he had never "run out of gas" before, and unafraid because be knew that the electronic station-index with which his suit was equipped would automatically shunt him to the nearest recharging station before the last of the energy in the suit's Contra-Hour-&-Age-Power- Pac gave out. Ordinarily, the CHAPP would have been bursting with energy, but Archer