Lost between the Plates

by Benjamin Abbott

• Release: 21 May 2021
• Format: Short Story
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

I’ve been chasing him for years and forever. Spinning through time and space without a sail.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1970 to 1999: ”I think that makes this the 1970s”
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: 2031, 2022, and probably other times
• Unspecified Future Year: “Skyscrapers fit for their name.”

Time Travel Methods

• Time Ships: “I need to ground myself soon or this whole ship will tear apart.”

Themes

• Chases through Time
• Fix History!: I think she's trying to undo the “reconstitution,” although there may be some personal past involved as well.
• Kill the Despot/Psychopath/Etc. (excluding Hitler)

Groupings

• Daily Science Fiction (periodical)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From an unspecified place and time at an unknown time ⋙ to a place with paisley wallpaper, 1970s. Note: ”horrid paisley wallpaper”.
2. From an unknown time ⋙ to 2031. Note: “I found him in 2031, years before the reconstitution.”
3. From an unknown time ⋙ to an unspecified place and time. Note: “This isn’t the twentieth century at all.”
4. From an unknown time ⋙ to 2022. Note: Picadilly Circus.
5. From an unknown time ⋙ to a place and time with no light pollution at an unknown time.
6. From an unknown time ⋙ to the street outside “his” house, unspecified time.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

• Length—Just barely a short story at 1,006 words.