The Gun Runners

The story follows electronics specialist George Dolan when three time-traveling gun runners from a sterile future arrive seeking urgent repairs to their time-translator. Their scheme to smuggle mid-twentieth-century selective weapons highlights cultural and biological mismatches: the visitors have undergone surgeries and inoculations, yet their machine's new synthetic insulation becomes a culture medium for contemporary bacilli that disable its electronics. As Dolan diagnoses and works to fix the device, he faces moral ambiguity, technological danger, and the unsettling presence of Moirta, a woman shaped by her era, exploring the risks and unintended consequences of contact between distant times.