Faster Gun
- by Elizabeth Bear
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Faster Gun” by Elizabeth Bear, Tor.com Original Fiction, 8 August 2012 [webzine].
A group of city women hire deputy Doctor Holliday to guide them to a crashed spaceship in 1881, but they soon realize they arenʼt the only ones inside the wreck.
—L. Percival
The hulk that loomed over, curving gently outward to a stalklike prow, could have been the rust-laceworked, rust-orange hulk of any derelict ironclad. Except it was a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, and a hundred times too big to be a ship.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: The story takes place in 1881.
- Unspecified Future Year: The travelers are from an unknown future time.
- Timeline Models
- Remembering Other Timelines: In the end of the story, Holliday gets deja vu when he agrees to guide a different group of people to the spaceship.
- Time Loop: Doctor Holliday appears to be stuck in a time loop, guiding different time tourists to a spaceship wreck, but he doesn't know it.
- Time Travel Methods
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: The women that Doctor Holliday guides say they are from the future, but we have no information as to how they time-traveled.
- Real-World Tags
- Doc Holliday: Doc Holliday is the main character.
- Old West
- Groupings
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- “Faster Gun” by Elizabeth Bear, Tor.com Original Fiction, 8 August 2012 [webzine].