Pauline Ashwell

writer
Novelette

The Wings of a Bat

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  • Science Fiction
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Time’s Revenge

A housewife has a chance encounter with a time-traveler who deals in ancient artifacts, after which the two of them have time-to-time encounters.
I had not realised how important the Time Traveler’s visits had become in my pleasant, prosperous, humdrum existence.
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  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Time-Traveling Terraformers

Sandy Jennings, an orphan and a red-headed Ph.D. student in microbiology, is recruited into a terraforming project by a group of several hundred time travelers who work in a loosely defined, non-authoritarian structure that spans years of their lifetimes and eons of the planet’s time. Sandy is not seen in the third and fourth stories, which show nick-of-time recruitments of volcanologist Simon Hardacre and plankton expert Haru.

I liked these last two stories, especially the character of Haru, but I longed for more development beyond what Sandy had already shown us of their common universe.
Knowledge, absolute and definite knowledge of the future as it affects yourself, is never any use. Whether it is bad or good, you cannot do anything that will change it. It simply takes away your power to decide.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Time Out of Joint

A time traveler who makes a living as an antiquities dealer tells a tale of a Greek urn that appeared in two different places at the same time.
If the Time Traveller sold his wares directly from the maker, modern tests would show that they are only a few years old. They are stored in an underground cavern somewhere in the Pliocene to rack up the appropriate number of centuries, so that tests for thermoluminescence and cosmic ray tracks give the right answer.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel