Paean for a Branch Ghost
- by Filip Wiltgren
- Short Story
- Science Fiction, War
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Paean for a Branch Ghost” by Filip Wiltgren, Future Science Fiction Digest #14, March 2022 [e-zine · webzine].
In the far future, a woman who had lived through the Sobibor extermination camp manipulates the system to go back and rescue the rest of her family.
—Michael Main
“Twentieth century,” said Davos, and I whistled, long, and low, and falling. “Special assignment,” he said, and I whistled again. I’d never heard of anyone going that far back.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: 14 October 1943
- Unspecified Future Year
- Timeline Models
- Branch-and-Return Timeline: Normally, the retrievers bring back people from short-lived, branched-off timelines.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: the vortex
- Themes
- Self-Visitation: Rothman meets her younger self in the branched-off timeline.
- Time Corps: The retrievers are part of some sort of Time Corp.
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
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- “Paean for a Branch Ghost” by Filip Wiltgren, Future Science Fiction Digest #14, March 2022 [e-zine · webzine].