The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards
- by Jason Sanford
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards” by Jason Sanford, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2021.
Forty years after NASA explorer Tessa Raij attempted to step through a dimensional portal and was instead relegated to an inexplicable state of isolation in a radioactivce crater, a dead girl—resembling her grandmother as a teen—shows up at her feet.
—Michael Main
Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: two decades after the mid-21st century water wars
- Themes
- Differing Time Rates: And the moment anything exited her sphere it experienced a passage of time equal to what scientists estimated to be a billion years.
- Frozen Time: Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.
- Unusual Aging: No one knew why she didn’t age or need to eat or breathe or why if she tried to kill herself she healed instantly.
- Fictional Tags
- Godzilla: Tessa is fascinated by Japanese kaiju, and imagines herself to be Godzilla as she approaches Las Vegas.
- Parallel Universes or Dimensions
- Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds: Nevada after the water wars
- Groupings
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- “The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards” by Jason Sanford, Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2021.