Finalizing History

by Richard K. Lyon

• Release: June 2008
• Format: Short Story
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

If one of these people dies young, that will pay your debt.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1960 to 1969: when Kennedy was president-elect

Timeline Models

• Hypertime: —As long as I remain slightly outside of your reality, a reverse causality cycle cannot occur.

Time Travel Methods

• Alien Time Travel Technology: although no actual time travel occurs in the story

Real-World Tags

• Adolf Hitler: on the list
• Bartolomé de las Casas: on the list
• Christopher Marlowe: on the list
• Clifford Simak: at the meeting
• Douglas MacArthur: at the meeting
• Edward Teller: at the meeting
• Erle Stanley Gardner: at the meeting
• Florence Nightingale: on the list
• Guy Fawkes: on the list
• Isaac Newton: on the list
• Jacqueline Kennedy: at the meeting
• Joan of Arc: on the list
• John W. Campbell, Jr.: at the meeting
• King Leonidas: on the list
• Robert A. Heinlein: at the meeting
• Ronald Reagan: at the meeting
• Thomas Crapper: on the list
• Thomas Edison: on the list
• Werner Heisenberg: on the list
• William the Silent: on the list

Groupings

• Astounding · Analog (periodical): June 2008