Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail

by James Morrow

Release: April 1992
Format: Short Story
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

A lovely series of letters between Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella—as conveyed by messenger albatross in 1492!—describing a modern-day NYC, wondrous yet horrifying.

— Dave Hook

DEBUT

“Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail,” Amazing Stories, April 1992.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): AD 1492
Circa AD 1970 to 1999: presumed time of NYC

Themes

Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time: messenger albatross

Real-World Tags

Groupings

Amazing Stories (periodical): April 1992

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

ITTDB Work #6991: by James Morrow
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
as of 8:34 p.m. MDT, 18 May 2024
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