The Actor
- by Kedrick Brown
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Actor” by Kedrick Brown , in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2008.
Lomua, a prehistoric hunter, is bitten by a poisonous snake and must make a quick decision on how to best protect the rest of the tribe from a stampede of wildebeests. What in the world does that have to do with an actor in the far future?
—Michael Main
Lomua opened his eyes in an immaculate room with pastel walls and warm lights, feeling fully refreshed.
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- Time Periods
- Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): simulated
- Far Future: Our years might not have any connection to the actors’ universe, but we choose to believe that the actors’ unusual society is in our far future.
- Themes
- Simulation: All of Earth’s history might be no more than a stage for the story’s actors. Or perhaps our Earth was real in the actors’ past. In either case, the stories that the actors tell are in a simulated reality rather than actual time travel.
- Groupings
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- “The Actor” by Kedrick Brown , in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2008.