Peter Crowther

writer
Short Story

Palindromic

  • by Peter Crowther
  • in First Contact, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, July 1997)

I wouldn’t have used the word palindromic to describe the happenings of this story: Aliens arrive in 1964, and their sense of time is backward from ours. It’s not palindromic because they experience the events in backward order: If I spell out the word time, they will hear e-m-i-t. It would be cool, however, to have a real palindromic story where some sequence of events in reverse is the same as that sequence experienced forward, like the expression emit time.

P.S. I just stumbled across another time travel story that is an actual palindrome! The Palindrome Paradox.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew

  • by Peter Crowther
  • in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001)

After his wife leaves for the day, writer Bennett Differing’s house is engulfed in a thick white fog, out of which comes his father who died 27 years before. —Michael Main
Maybe the dead did use mist as a means of getting around—so many movies had already figured that one out. . . and maybe they did travel in time.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel