Time’s Arrow

by Geeoff Hart

Release: 20 December 2021
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

A physicist with a dead girlfriend experiences various precognition episodes leading up to his attempt to travel to the past to undead the girlfriend, or at least plant the seeds for the precognition.

— Michael Main

I’m certain I didn’t send myself any mail recently, but then again, I have plans to do so in the near future—or near past, I suppose.

DEBUT

“Time’s Arrow,” in Short Stories by Geoff Hart (no specified publisher, added 10 February 2009) [ongoing e-collection at www.geoff-hart.com/fiction/short-stories/, accessed 20 December 2021[/d[/ex].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1970 to 1999: The physicist’s target.
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: The physicist’s starting time.

Time Travel Methods

Wellsian Time Machines

Themes

Experiencing Time Rewinding: It appears that the physicist goes back through his own body, experiencing the days in reverse order as they happen..
Fix History!
Save “Lois”!
Travels into Yourself
Western Union from a Time Traveler in the Past

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From a physics lab, 1 January 2001 ⋙ to five years earlier. Round trip. Note: the rabbit.
From a physics lab, 29 March 2001 ⋙ to back to 1996 and beyond. Note: the physicist.