Best. Scientist. EVER.
- by Omar Velasco
- Flash Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Best. Scientist. EVER.” by Omar Velasco, Daily Science Fiction, 8 December 2020 [webzine].
You head out on a quick, rollicking ride back through time, with an unknown pursuer and an ambiguous conclusion.
—Tandy Ringoringo
You come to the conclusion that you can correct everything if you stop yourself before you steal the time machine.
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- Time Periods
- Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic)
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): 230 BC: Archimedes.
- Circa AD 1600 to 1699: 1666: Newton.
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1850: Jules Verne.
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1927: Einstein and Schrödinger.
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: 1985.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Two stops in the 21st century.
- Circa AD 2200 to 2299: AD 2274, home time.
- Time Travel Methods
- Wellsian Time Machines: Generic.
- Themes
- Chases through Time: An unknown pursuer, who may be the original traveler.
- Resetting Time As If the Story Never Took Place: Uncertain whether the attempt to do so works, but probably not if the traveler is indeed the pursuer..
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- “Best. Scientist. EVER.” by Omar Velasco, Daily Science Fiction, 8 December 2020 [webzine].