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Originally published
  
June 1999

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Publication type
  
Publication date
  
June 1999

Country
  
United States of America

Published in
  
Asimov's Science Fiction

Awards
  
Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Similar
  
Works by James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award for Best Novelette winners

"1016 to 1" is a science fiction novelette published in 1999 by James Patrick Kelly. It was the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. It was also nominated for the 2000 Locus award and Asimov's Reader Poll.

Plot summary

The story follows Ray Beaumont, a 12-year-old boy living in New York during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. During the Cold War tensions of the time, Ray meets Cross, a man he believes is from the future. He offers Cross a temporary place to stay in his family’s back yard bomb shelter and proceeds to acquire the items necessary for Cross's mission. When he doesn't tell his parents about Cross, and comes home one afternoon to find that his mother has discovered an intruder in the bomb shelter, events quickly spiral out of control and Ray becomes convinced that he is the only one able to prevent World War III.

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