Young Brian, who lives with his mother and idolizes his deadbeat father, listens to a long-gone, space opera radio show that’s still being picked up on his boombox—but it’s more than the radio signals that are time traveling!
This Commander Parsec show is pretty ridiculous. The commander is always rescuing bimbos and defeating the bad guys all over the Galaxy.

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  1. “Searching for Commander Parsec” by Peter Wood, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2015.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Peter Wood