Secret Agent Moe Berg #6

Billie the Kid

by Rick Wilber

• Release: September/October 2021
• Format: Novelette
• Genres: Science Fiction, Sports, War
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

This is your moment, Billie. Coming up right now. Save the worlds, Billie. Change everything. You can do it.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1930 to 1939: when Billie is young
• Circa AD 1940 to 1949: most of the story, although there are parts of Billie’s adult life later in the 20th century that we have not indexed
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Eddie’s time and when Billie is old

Timeline Models

• Remembering Different Timelines: Billie, Moe, Eddie, and perhaps some of the others all remember the timeline before it was changed. Billie is confused about why she ended up in a timeline where Moe never left, and this reader is equally confused on that matter.

Time Travel Methods

• Time Portal: stepping into the closet and the portal

Themes

• Alternate Histories
• Future Is “Down”: the future is “down the line”
• Future Is “Up”: but it is also “upstream”
• Time Corps: Stern and myBoop sure seem like part of a Time Corps with lotsa rules.
• Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: minor nausea

Real-World Tags

• Barbara Stanwyck
• Baseball
• Bing Crosby
• Gary Cooper
• Gene Autry
• George Burns
• Gracie Allen
• Hedy Lamarr
• Marx Brothers
• Moe Berg
• World War II

Fictional Tags

• Woman-of-Many-Names

Groupings

• Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (periodical): September/October 2021
• Secret Agent Moe Berg (story series): #6

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From Niagara Falls, 2045 ⋙ to southern California and elsewhere, mostly 1940–1945. Multiple round trips. Note: “Eddie Bennett” on her mission to handle Billie the “inflection point,” mostly in the 1940s, but later throughout Billie’s life, too.