Unredacted Reports from 1546
- by Leah Cypess
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Unredacted Reports from 1546” by Leah Cypess, Future Science Fiction Digest #11, June 2021 [e-zine · webzine].
An 18-year-old history student hopes to show that her research subject, 16th-century poet Lucia of Gonzaga, was a modern woman supressed by her time period, but as the traveling student sends messages back to her 21st-century mentor, she reveals more than just history as she’d hoped it would be.
—Michael Main
You were wrong about my age, though. In the sixteenth century, I’m an adult. I am physically mature and able to bear children, and that’s all that matters. No one cares about the completeness of my frontal lobe.
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- Time Periods
- Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): AD 1546
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: There is some ambiguity as to the starting time, which the narrator refers to as both 700 years after AD 1546 and as the 21st century.
- Timeline Models
- Single Naive Timeline: Nothing other than a brief mention of sometimes needing to file reports on temporal-stability incidents.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time
- Physical Limitations on Who May Travel: Only the young may travel.
- Salvaging Lost Art or Literature: The narrator hopes to find other works by Lucia.
- Time Historians: Hard to tell whether there is a Time Corps, but there are definitely historians.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: It’s basically some anecdotal evidence about fewer neuro-injuries in younger people [. . .]
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- “Unredacted Reports from 1546” by Leah Cypess, Future Science Fiction Digest #11, June 2021 [e-zine · webzine].