The Miracle of Ivar Avenue
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by John Kessel
- Novelette
- Science Fiction, Mystery and Crime
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” by John Kessel, in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al., January 1996.
In 1949 Los Angeles, Detective Lee Kinlaw has writer/director Preston Sturges down in the morgue. The only problem is that Sturges is still alive and well in Hollywood.
—Michael Main
It’s a transmogrifier. A device that can change anyone into anyone else. I can change General MacArthur into President Truman, Shirley Temple into Marilyn Monroe.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: 1–3 August 1949
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: 2043
- Timeline Models
- Branch-and-Return Timeline: moment universes
- Branching Timelines: “They’re like branches splitting of the same tree trunk.”
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- True Histories: the true history of Preston Sturges’s reemergence
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
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- “The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” by John Kessel, in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al., January 1996.