Million Eyes 0.03

The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller

by C. R. Berry

Release: Autumn 2016
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

What could that mysterious woman be doing on the film clip of the 1928 premier of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, other than apparently talking into a small brick held to her ear?

— Michael Main

Yup, this woman was talking on a mobile phone—in 1928—decades before they were invented.

DEBUT

“The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller,” in Tigershark Magazine 11, Autumn 2016.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1900 to 1929: the showing of The Circus
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: the time of George Clarke, during an airing of a new episode of Breaking Bad

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Flint’s trip to 1928 is the first intention time travelling in the Million Eyes series.

Themes

Technology and Science from the Future: the mobile phone
Top Secret Time Travel: Detective Inspector Martin Hammond, Miss Morgan, Gillian Flint, et al.

Groupings

Million Eyes (story series): 3rd published story

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From an unspecified place, circa 2013 ⋙ to a showing of Chaplin’s The Circus, 1928. Round trip. Note: Gillian Flint, no later than 2013, since new episodes of Breaking Bad are airing.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Variants—According to the copyright page of <em>Million Eyes: Extra Time,</em> the nine republished stories in that collection are revisions of their earlier publications.