The Meteor Girl
- by Jack Williamson
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, March 1931.
When a meteor lands on the beachfront airfield of our narrator and his partner Charlie King, Charlie realizes that it provides a space-time portal through which they view the death-at-sea of Charlie’s ex-fiancée.
—Michael Main
A terrestrial astronomer may reckon that the outburst on Nova Persei occurred a century before the great fire of London, but an astronomer on the Nova may reckon with equal accuracy that the great fire occurred a century before the outburst on the Nova.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed time period
- Timeline Models
- Foretold or Seen Future Is Not Set in Stone
- Viewing the Future: The Valhalla probably hasn’t sunk at all! We were looking into the future!
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: the field of the meteorite
- Themes
- Save “Lois”!: Charlie wants to save his ex-fiancée, Virginia.
- Groupings
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- “The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, March 1931.
- audio reading.
“The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson, in Astounding Stories 15: March 1931, coordinated by Bill Boerst (LibriVox, December 2015) [audio] [Audio collection accessed at https://librivox.org/astounding-stories-15-march-1931-by-ray-cummings/ on 8 April 2022.].