Coming Back

by Damien Broderick

Release: December 1982
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Physics-lab flunky Eddie Rostow knows that the glory that his professor is claiming over localized time-reversal should rightly be Eddie’s own; and then, there’s Jennifer who let him have his way with her one night and now ignores him. So what, forsooth, will he do when the time contraption throws him into a 34-minute time loop?

I’m not trapped. I thought I was a prisoner, but I’m the first man in history to be genuinely liberated. Set free from consequence. Do it. If you don’t like the results, scrub it on the next cycle and try again.

DEBUT

“Coming Back,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1982.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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ITTDB Work #1999: by Damien Broderick
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Curator: Michael Main
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