Edward Bryant

writer
Short Story

Paths


A traveler from the future makes his way to Morisel’s office to warn the reporter about the consequences of continued mindless rape of the environment.

In addition to acknowledging that Ed Bryant’s stories are among my favorites, I can also add that he is a kind and generous mentor to writers in the Denver area, including myself!
I don’t want to seem cynical. You may be my ten-times-removed egg-father or something, but right now it’s awfully hard not to believe you’re just a run-of-the-mill aberrant. I mean, here you crawl into my office close to midnight, spread yourself down, and then calmly announce you’re a traveler from the future.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Precession

  • by Edward Bryant
  • in Interfaces, edited by Virginia Kidd and Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace Books, February 1980)

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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Prairie Sun


On the Oregon trail west of Laramie in 1850, 13-year-old Micah Taverner asks two scavenger men from the future to cure his sister Annie from the smallpox.

Janet and I heard this read by James Whiteman in 2004 at a series of dramatic readings called Colorado Homegrown Tales. The other stories at the February session were “Hungry” by Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Dream of Houses” by Wil McCarthy, and my own “Childrey Green” read by Debbie Knapp.
The road was lined with all manner of belongings thrown away by the exhausted, overburdened men and women barely halfway along their arduous journey.
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  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel