Short Story
James Tiptree, Jr.
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Short Story
The Man Who Walked Home
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- in Amazing, May 1972
After an accident at a temporal research facility in Idaho, a manlike monster known as John Delgano shows up for half a seoncd once a year at the same time and place.
As early as the 1930s, stories have addressed the issue of the Earth moving to a different position when a time traveler moves through time. This story addresses the issue by saying that the time traveler appears only once per year, but that doesn't really solve the problem for so many reasons, starting with the fact that a given position on the surface of the Earth will not be at “the same” position in the subsequent year. —Michael Main
As early as the 1930s, stories have addressed the issue of the Earth moving to a different position when a time traveler moves through time. This story addresses the issue by saying that the time traveler appears only once per year, but that doesn't really solve the problem for so many reasons, starting with the fact that a given position on the surface of the Earth will not be at “the same” position in the subsequent year. —Michael Main
Then that winter they came down for Christmas and John said they had something new. He was really excited. A temporal displacement, he called it; some kind of time effect.
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Through a Lass Darkly
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- in Generation: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction, edited by David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin (Dell, July 1972)
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Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Fantastic August 1972
At 75, heiress Loolie Aerovulpa travels back to her nubile teenaged body to throw herself at her one true love, Dovy Rapelle.
I’m attractive, am’t I?” She opened the blanket to look at herself. “I mean, am I attractive to you? Oh, Dovy, s-say something! I’ve come so far, I chartered three jets, I, I,—Oh, Dovy d-darling!”
Novella
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Susan Janice Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1976)
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Liros: A Tale of the Quintana Roo
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 28 September 1981
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The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1982
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Novella
Backward, Turn Backward
- by James Tiptree, Jr.
- in Synergy: New Science Fiction, edited by George Zebrowski (Harvest, April 1988)
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