On the Watchtower at Plataea
- Eloi Bronze Medal
- by Garry Kilworth
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “On the Watchtower at Plataea” by Garry Kilworth, in Other Edens II, edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock (Unwin Paperbacks, November 1988).
Miriam and her fellow time travelers, John and Stan, set up camp in an abandoned watchtower to observe and record the siege of the walled city-state Plataea in the Peloponnesian War.
It was a shock to find that the expedition could go no further back than 429 BC; though for some of us, it was not an unwelcome one. Miriam was perhaps the only one amongst us who was annoyed that we couldn't get to Pericles. He had died earlier, in the part of the year we couldn’t reach. So near—but we had hit a barrier, as solid as a rockface on the path of linear time, in the year that the Peloponnesian War was gaining momentum.
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- “On the Watchtower at Plataea” by Garry Kilworth, in Other Edens II, edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock (Unwin Paperbacks, November 1988).