drockwel%BBN-VAX@sri-unix.UUCP (08/24/83)
From: Dennis Rockwell <drockwel@BBN-VAX> The story is "Try and Change the Past", by Fritz Leiber, currently collected in "Changewar", a rather good book. The "snakes" and "spiders" are the two sides in an eternal war, with each side trying to undermine the other in the past. In these stories, you *never* see anything close to the big picture of the conflict, just a set of vignettes in various times and places.