In the Western Tradition
- by Phyllis Eisenstein
- Novella
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
In the Western Tradition
by Phyllis Eisenstein, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1981.
During a study of Wyatt Earp, two romantically involved operators of a time-viewing Bubble face relationship problems.
—Michael Main
Time viewing, after all, had given me everything I wanted—the endlessly marvelous past, a fat salary, and Alison.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): viewed during the rule of Augustus
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1873
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: home time of the Bubble
- Timeline Models
- Time Barrier: The 93.675 years immediately before our own were closed to the Bubble, too near for focus.
- Viewing the Past
- Time Travel Methods
- Chronoscopes: the Bubble
- Themes
- Time Historians: Most of the Bubble users fall into this category.
- Real-World Tags
- Ben Thompson
- Augustus: The narrator, an expert on Augustus, describes his first time viewing the man in the past.
- Billy Thompson
- Jesus: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Morgan Earp: mentioned as being in one of Hollandʼs viewings of Wyatt
- Native Americans: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- O. K. Corral: mentioned as being in one of Hollandʼs viewings of Wyatt
- Old West
- The Olympics: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Oregon Trail and Other Covered Wagon Trails: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Roman Empire: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Vikings: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Virgil Earp: mentioned as being in one of Hollandʼs viewings of Wyatt
- William Shakespeare: mentioned as being stuidied in the Bubble
- Wyatt Earp
- Groupings
Variants
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In the Western Tradition
by Phyllis Eisenstein, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1981.
Indexer Notes
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- History—The belief that Wyatt Earpʼs legendary career began at the Ellsworth event is most likely apocryphal.