Dave Dryden and his pal Shel have a great life traveling through time, visiting with Napoléon and da Vinci, until Shel dies. Or does he?

I was lucky enough to meet Jack McDevitt at Jim Gunn’s workshop in Lawrence. He was always encouraging, kind, insightful and upbeat—for me, the best of the resident writers at the workshop.
Time travel should not be possible in a rational universe.

Variants

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  1. “Time Travelers Never Die” by Jack McDevitt, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1996.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jack McDevitt