The Other World
- by Cheryl J. Brown
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
The Other World
by Cheryl J. Brown, in Spaceports and Spidersilk, October 2024.
Divorce in the future is hard on children. Young Tage must pilot his spaceship from Mars to Earth for a summer visit with Mom, but he ends up 300 years in the past.
—Michael Main
Written in bold, cursive letters it read the Cypress Review. Underneath it was some minor national news about the Soviet Union and other European countries that signed the Warsaw Pact last week. Soviet Union? Warsaw Pact? He thought curiously, the names sounded familiar but he could have sworn he remembered hearing about that in American History class and its timing being before the twenty-first century.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 17 May 1955
- Circa AD 2200 to 2299: Tages home time in 2260
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: You slipped through a time portal and traveled into the past.
- Themes
- FTL without Time Travel: They are traveling at FTL speeds, which may have contributed to the formation of the time portal.
- What Year Is It?: The year, sir, the year.
- Groupings
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The Other World
by Cheryl J. Brown, in Spaceports and Spidersilk, October 2024.