Titus Oates
Titus Oates, a member of Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, is taken from
the time stream and revived in a bewildering 21st century, whereupon he does what any
self-respecting explorer would do—heads to the stars!
The two Oates stories (“May
Be Some Time” in the April 2001 Analog and “Tiptoe on a Fence Post” in the
Jul/Aug 2002 Analog) were combined and expanded for the 2009 novel, Revise the
World.
Not only are you a person rescued from a tragic death, but your removal is supremely
unlikely to trigger any change in the time-stream, since your body was lost: presumed
frozen solid, entombed in a glacier for eons
. . .