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Palindromic

by Peter Crowther

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.

He seemed to be trying hard to find the right word. “They’re palindromic.”

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

Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew

by Peter Crowther

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.

“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).

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