John G. Hemry

writer
Short Story

Crow’s Feat

Mid-list science fiction writer Paul Gallatin runs into scientist Ivan Ivanovich at a party, and the scientist offers to send Paul back to Shakespeare’s time.
Tell me, how many copies do you think a book would sell if it proved your belief that Shakespeare was a fraud?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Small Moments in Time

A time traveler seeking lost seeds in the past finds a man who may have started the worst influenza of the 20th century.
The odd truth of working as a temporal interventionist is that some there-and-thens are better than others.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Working on Borrowed Time

Tom and his implanted AI Jeannie (from “Small Moments in Time”) are back again, this time trying to stop future Nazis from destroying Edwardian London.
What? The British Empire started coming apart in the 1920s?
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Joan

It’s comforting to know that when you open a science fiction story named “Joan,” your expectations will be met—as in this story of our heroine Kate, time travel, and Joan of Arc.
I realize I may seem a little obsessive, but is it so wrong to wish I could have saved her from being burned? She was such a remarkable person and it was such a horrible fate.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms

Ninety-year-old Jim Jones is sent back into his 15-year-old body in 1964 to help Betty Knox (who is already back in her 15-year-old body and doesn’t expect him) because all the time-travel agents (sent back to that time to avert the world’s toxin disasters) have disappeared with no discernable effect on history.
And I know that after Johnson, Richard Nixon is elected president. Then comes Ford. Who comes next?
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

These are the Times

Temporal Interventionist Tom and his implanted assistant Jeannie are at the start of the American Revolution, a decidedly TI-crowded time, when they run into Tom’s love interest Pam, another TI from Tom’s future who is trying to figure out who fired the first shot.
The steath-suited TI leveled a weapon, then droped as a stun charge hit. Moments later the other TI weo’d fired the stun charge fell, then two more TIs appeared and took out whoever had nailed the second TI. But then the stealth-suited TI reappeared, having recovered somewhen in the future and jumped back to try to finish the job.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel