At 18, Hideo leaves his family and his planet, O, to become part of a group that invents
instantaneous transportation—a device that ends up taking him back to the time that he
first left Planet O.
So: once upon a time when I was twenty-one years old I left my home and came on the NAFAL
ship Terraces of Darranda to study at the Ekumenical Schools on
Hain.
DEBUT
“Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea,” in A Fisherman of the Inland
Sea (HarperPrism, May 1994).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea,” in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism, May 1994).
So: once upon a time when I was twenty-one years old I left my home and came on the NAFAL
ship Terraces of Darranda to study at the Ekumenical Schools on
Hain.
1 English variant