Alfred Bester

“The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” is a science fiction short story written by Alfred Bester, published in 1958 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story follows Professor Henry Hassel, who, after discovering his wife’s infidelity, builds a time machine with the intention of erasing her existence by altering historical events. However, as he murders key figures from the past, Hassel discovers that time is a much more complex matter than he had expected. With a mixture of dark humor and temporal paradoxes, Bester questions the nature of time and the consequences of manipulating it.