Jag överensstämmer med algs svar i både ID och skillnaderna i citerade detaljer. Så här börjar "Spectator Sport":
"Dr. Rufus Maddon was not generally considered to be an impatient man - or addicted to physical violence.
But when the tenth man he tried to stop on the street brushed by him with a mutter of annoyance Rufus Maddon grabbed the eleventh man, swung him around and held him with his shoulders against a crumbling wall.
He said, 'You will listen to me, sir! I am the first man to travel into the future and I will not stand --'"
Den ursprungliga affischen nämner kullar överallt och byggnader förfallna. I berättelsen:
"Once again he continued his aimless walk down the streets of the familiar city. There was a general air of disrepair. Shops were boarded up. The pavement was broken and potholed. A few automobiles traveled on the broken streets. They, at least, appeared to be of a slightly advanced design but they were dented, dirty, and noisy."
Posten nämner också direkta neurala gränssnitt för virtuella världar:
"Permanent was so much better than the temp stuff you could get on the home sets. The nerve ends was what did it, of course."
Också beskrivs som "hooked up":
"They rolled him over on his side, made the usual incision at the back of his neck, carefully slit the main motor nerves, leaving the senses, the heart and lungs intact. They checked the air conditioning and plugged him into the feeding schedule for that bank of Perms.
Next they swung the handrods and the footplates into position, gave him injections of local anesthetic, expertly flayed the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet, painted the raw flesh with the sticky nerve graft and held his hands closed around the rods, his feet against the plates until they adhered in the proper position."
Posten nämner att huvudpersonen bedöms galen som han berättar för folket i framtiden om hans tidsresa. Detta är inte direkt relaterat men hänvisas till:
"Cramer, deputy chief of LD, sauntered in and said, 'The guy was really off. He was yammering about being from the past and not to destroy his mind.'"
Också:
"'Blast it, Al,' Handriss said, 'why couldn't your people have been more careful! He looks as if he might have been intelligent.'
Al shrugged. 'Do they come here from the past every couple of minutes? He didn't look any different than any other lobey to me.'"
Slutligen, Wild West-scenariot i slutet:
"Inside the cubicle, Dr. Rufus Maddon was riding slowly down the steep trail from the mesa to the cattle town on the plains. He was trail-weary an sun-blackened. There was an old score to settle. Feeney was about to foreclose on Mary Ann's spread and Buck Hoskie, Mary Ann's crooked foreman, had threatened to shoot on sight.
Rufus Maddon wiped the sweat from his forehead on the back of a lean hard brown hero's hand."
Som alg påpekar, drabbas det inte av en buss som kastar Maddon in i framtiden; han reser där med avsikt. Dessutom var VR inte i form av interaktiva spel men mer som filmer. Slutligen var människor inte fångar men räddade faktiskt sina hela liv för "Perm" -uppkopplingen; det var en frivillig sak. Affischen kan vara felaktig eller blanda i detaljer från en annan historia.