Time Bride
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Time Bride” by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1983.
Shortly after turning eight, Marcy Meisner loses her childhood to an ever-present voice from the future who (so he assures Marcy’s parents) wants to marry Marcy when she grows up and has only Marcy’s best interests at heart.
Please let me explain, Mr. Meisner. I don’t want to marry Marcy now. I want to marry her in the future, ten years from now, when she’s eighteen. That is, I believe, an acceptable age.
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- “Time Bride” by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1983.