Theory of Relativity
- by Jody Lynn Nye
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Theory of Relativity” by Jody Lynn Nye, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).
Dr. Rachel Fenstone takes her time machine from her universe to a parallel universe (both of which contain the Marx Brothers) where she meets an analog of herself so that together they can figure out where their histories diverged and visit that moment in their mutual pasts.
—Michael Main
In June’s reality her grandfather was an inventor, too, but his parents settled in New York, where the boys grew up in the tenements not far from where the Marx Brothers were born.
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- “Theory of Relativity” by Jody Lynn Nye, in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).