Sheckley, Robert. "The Deaths of Ben Baxter"
Summary: Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable choices.
Published: In Galaxy, July 1957; Store of Infinity, Bantam 1960 (0553052292); and The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley: Book Four, Pulphouse 1991.
Original in: English.
Translation: German by Tony Westermayr as "Die wandelbare Zukunft", in Das geteilte Ich, Goldmann 1963; and Das zweite Robert Sheckley-Buch, Bastei-Lübbe; 1987 (3404240901).