Shakesville

by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Release: March/April 2017
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Fifty future versions of a man show up in his apartment (49 of whom are corrupted) to warn him of an impending fateful decision that he must make correctly.

— Michael Main

It’s not anything fatal. You know it can’t be anything fatal, because if it was, then there would be no future self who could be sent back to warn you.

DEBUT

”Shakesville,” Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2017.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Up to forty years in the future of the current “me.”

Timeline Models

Multiple Naive Timelines

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods

Themes

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From up to forty years in the future ⋙ to a small apartment, circa 2017. Note: the fifty possible future variants of Me.
From a small apartment, circa 2017 ⋙ to back to their own times. Note: every Me except for Four.
From a small apartment, circa 2017 ⋙ to back to Me Four’s time. Note: the original swaps places with Four.