No Time
- by Andrew Bale
- Flash Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “No Time” by Andrew Bale, 365 Tomorrows, 13 August 2011 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://365tomorrows.com/08/13/no-time/ on 30 June 2021.].
A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.
You get attacked, you have no backup, so you become your own.
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): During the Mongol Empire
- Time Travel Methods
- Wearable Time Object: a time belt
- Themes
- Antiques or Ancient Artifacts for Fun and Profit
- Causal Loops: Normally in this kind of situation, the narrator survives the battle, then jumps back with additional power to help himself survive. A causal loop in that he sees himself on the battlefield, therefore he comes back to the battlefield, therefore he sees himself . . .
- Free Will, Fate, and Determinism: So why does he come back? Perhaps because he knows (having seen himself) that it is fated. Or perhaps because he knows that if he doesn’t come back that he’ll die then and there at the hands of the Mongols.
- Self-Visitation
- Time Cops: —The Time Patrol forbid it . . .
- Real-World Tags
- Mongol Empire: —One body that was not that of a Mongol . . .
- Groupings
Variants
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- “No Time” by Andrew Bale, 365 Tomorrows, 13 August 2011 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://365tomorrows.com/08/13/no-time/ on 30 June 2021.].