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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  1. “The Meteor Girl” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, March 1931.
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  2. 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.].
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