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{{for|the Jack Williamson novel|The Legion of Time}}
{{Infobox short story | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name           = Legions in Time
| author         = [[Michael Swanwick]]
| genre          = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher      = ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]''
| release_date   = April 2003
}}

'''"Legions in Time"''' is a [[science fiction]] novelette by [[Michael Swanwick]], originally published in the April 2003 issue of ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]''. It won the [[Hugo Award for Best Novelette]] in 2004. The story was reprinted in ''Science Fiction: The Best of 2003'' and in several other collections and  anthologies. It has been translated into Spanish, French and Italian.

Swanwick wrote that his story was inspired by [[A. E. Van Vogt]]'s "Recruiting Station", "which just speeds along like a racehorse afire, and thought I'd try to write something similar."  <ref>[http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2013/07/there-is-no-escaping-legions-in-time.html  There Is No Escaping . . . Legions in Time!], July 1, 2013</ref>

==Plot summary==
A widow with the strange job of sitting  in an empty office and guarding an empty closet, decides to take action and steps through—and falls into a cosmic, time-spanning adventure that ends with her becoming an entire organization spread throughout time with a goal of destroying the evil Empire of the Aftermen.
 
==References==
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==External links==
*{{isfdb title|id=101500|title=Legions in Time}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041208165439/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/legionsintime.shtml "Legions in Time"], Asimov's, April 2003


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[[Category:Short stories by Michael Swanwick]]
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