Written in Sand

by Robert Chilson

Release: December 1979
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Paul Enias travels from 21st century Egypt back to the third century where he becomes Pausanias, falls in love with the slave Taia, and takes advice from Apollonius about which of 750,000 available books to bury in clay jars for future Egyptians to discover.

Odd that the book-man should shrug off the value of books, but Pausanias had too much to do to ponder it, overseeing the copying, the shipping of the books up the Nile, the reorganization of his new estate, and of course there was taia, then a new—bride.

DEBUT

“Written in Sand,” in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1979.

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1 English variant

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ITTDB Work #1941: by Robert Chilson
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