Short Story
The Fort Moxie Branch
- by Jack McDevitt
- in Full Spectrum, edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy (Bantam Spectra, September 1988)
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Novelette
Short Story
Time Travelers Never Die
- by Jack McDevitt
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1996
Dave Dryden and his pal Shel have a great life traveling through time, visiting with Napoléon and da Vinci, until Shel dies. Or does he?
I was lucky enough to meet Jack McDevitt at Jim Gunn’s workshop in Lawrence. He was always encouraging, kind, insightful and upbeat—for me, the best of the resident writers at the workshop.
I was lucky enough to meet Jack McDevitt at Jim Gunn’s workshop in Lawrence. He was always encouraging, kind, insightful and upbeat—for me, the best of the resident writers at the workshop.
Time travel should not be possible in a rational universe.
Novel
Time Travelers Never Die
- by Jack McDevitt
- (Ace Books, November 2009)
Early in the novelization of the story, Shel has a conversation with his dad about the chronological integrity principle. There is only one timestream, and if we try to do anything to change what is already known about the stream, then time will stop us. On the other hand, if we can arrange for an event to happen that meets the known facts without being quite what we thought it was. . .
