Ugo

by Giovanni De Feo

Release: September 2017
Format: Short Story
Genres: Fantasy, Mainstream
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

At age six, Ugo began leaping into other parts of his life: sometimes into an older Ugo, sometimes younger, sometimes in control of his body, sometimes just observing. The whole leaping business isn’t entirely clear except fo his connection with his future wife Cynthia—or sometimes Ciznia—and his insistence that nothing he sees can ever be changed.

— Michael Main

Later on, Ugo developed a theory about it. He said that in reality everybody Leaps all the time. The proof? Déjà vu. The feeling of having already experienced what is in fact happening for the first time was for him the ultimate, definitive evidence of Leaping. The only difference between Ugo and everyone else was that he remembered, while we don’t.

DEBUT

“Ugo,” Lightspeed, September 2017.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline: This tag and most of the remaining tags assume the time travel is real.

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods

Themes

Alternate Decision Universes: There is some suggestion that Cynthia’s universe and Cinzia’s universe resulted from the different decisions that she made.
Apparent Time Phenomenon Is Not What It Seems: If Ugo is in Cynthia’s mind only.
Travels into Yourself

Groupings

Lightspeed (periodical): September 2017

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From various places and times in Ugo’s life at an unknown time ⋙ to to various other places and times in his life at an unknown time. Round trip. Note: Ugo’s mind travels into his older or younger body.