Backwards
- BY Gregory Velloze
- Flash Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Backwards,” BY Gregory Velloze, Daily Science Fiction, 28 October 2020 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/aliens/gregory-velloze/backwards on 3 July 2021.].
A short-lived species has memories of both the past and the future.
—Michael Main
For progeny and ancestors of the Retromens had communicated with their caretaker, studying him as he studied them, generation for generation.
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Cognizant Eternalism: Although the story’s gimmick is in being told backwards, the Retromens are more of an example of Cognizant Eternalism than of time running in reverse.
- Time Runs in Reverse for Some Beings: We’ve included this tag to aid in searching for the story, but time does not really run backwards.
- Fictional Tags
- Aliens
- Mad Scientists: The world thinks the narrator and the father are both mad.
- Groupings
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- “Backwards,” BY Gregory Velloze, Daily Science Fiction, 28 October 2020 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/aliens/gregory-velloze/backwards on 3 July 2021.].