Routine Exercise
- by Philip E. High
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Routine Exercise” by Philip E. High, New Worlds Science Fiction #103, February 1961.
“It was like a distant depth charge, yet—” it sent Captain Harvey’s nuclear sub to a different time where “—the enemy, whoever they were, technically outclassed his own culture by about fifteen hundred years, if not more.” Or maybe it was something else out there in that fetid heat.
—Michael Main
The past—could there be such a thing as a time-shift? The whole idea was a paradox, wasn’t it? Like that yarn about the chap who went back in time and murdered his own grandfather.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: presumed home time of the story
- Unspecified Past Year: probably before the emergence of humans
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Alien Time Travel Technology: “Unwittingly they had created a time warp and we were snatched into it.”
- Timeslips
- Themes
- Grandfather Paradox: brief mention
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
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- “Routine Exercise” by Philip E. High, New Worlds Science Fiction #103, February 1961.