Footsteps
- by Susanne Hülsmann
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
Footsteps
by Susanne Hülsmann, in The Chorochronos Archives, edited by Jessica Augustsson (JayHenge, April 2021).
At the end of the 18th-century, Lucinda Henrietta Davenport finally finishes her time travel contraption, which she uses mostly to visit the past and sample the food without leaving a trace of herself.
—Michael Main
I will leave no footsteps.
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- Time Periods
- Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): a performance of Much Ado about Nothing; and during the reign of one of the Aztec Moctezumas.
- Circa AD 1700 to 1799: time of Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Henrietta’s home time: 1895
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: Henrietta took at least one trip as far forward as 1905; and she lived at least through the 1960s.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: John Carter’s time: 2019; and Dr. Hillyer’s time: 2068
- Unspecified Future Year: a rather long trip into the future for a gadget that lets Lucinda travel through space as well as time
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods
- Wearable Time Object: the harness and time watches
- Themes
- Never Change the Past!: leave no footsteps
- Time Historians: the Time Traveller’s Anachronistic Society
- Time Travel Agencies, Safaris, and Tourists: the TTAS, at the end
- You Will Remember Nothing!: that invention that will erase inconvenient memories
- Real-World Tags
- Byzantine Empire: a sweet and sour meat dish
- Catherine the Great: in her kitchen
- Christopher Columbus: Marius accidentally met him.
- Cleopatra : Beatrice accidentally met her.
- Elizabethan Era
- Marie Antoinette: to the queen’s boudoir
- Native Americans: Aztecs
- Precolonial Americas: Aztec empire
- Pre-Revolutionary France ((AD 1453 to 1789))
- Roman Empire: for lentil stew
- Vikings: spit-roasted boar
- William Shakespeare: to see one of his plays
- Groupings
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Footsteps
by Susanne Hülsmann, in The Chorochronos Archives, edited by Jessica Augustsson (JayHenge, April 2021).