Short Story
Time Gypsy
- by Ellen Klages
- in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (The Overlook Press, September 1998)
Thirty-year-old Dr. Carol McCullough, a physics post-doc at Berkeley, worships Sara Baxter Clarke, a rare woman physicist who died in 1956 before she could present her paper giving an argument for a practical tempokinetics.
I'm offering to send you back in time to attend the 1956 International Conference for Experimental Physics. I need a copy of Clarke’s last paper.