Kate Warner, assistant professor of English, doesn’t see how that dimwitted Marzano could have submitted her paper on The Man in the High Castle to The Hoboken Literary Journal 18 months before she even started writing it.

Wood creates some likeable characters, but there is no consistency in his model of time travel.
You have a time machine and you’re not doing anything important or helping anyone. All you’re doing messing with me.

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  1. “Academic Circles” by Peter Wood, in Asimov’s Science Ficton, September 2016.
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