Peter Pape

translator
Novelette

Time Patrol 1

Time Patrol

In the first of a long series of hallowed stories, former military engineer (and noncomformist) Manse Everard is recruited by the Time Patrol to prevent time travelers from making major changes to history. (Don’t worry, history bounces back from the small stuff.) —Michael Main
If you went back to, I would guess, 1946, and worked to prevent your parents’ marriage in 1947, you would still have existed in that year; you would not go out of existence just because you had influenced events. The same would apply even if you had only been in 1946 one microsecond before shooting the man who would otherwise have become your father.
A man climbs a spiraling ramp up the side of a rocket while holding a blaster on two men below.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

The River of Time

Daniel Brand, a science fiction writer, walks us through the new world where he lives that started when a large number of people seemingly froze in place. —Michael Main
Physicians listened to heartbeats that dragged on, lonely and deep, for over a minute per. They worried over eyes that refused to blink, yet remained somehow moist. They despaired over encephalograms whose spikes could be counted in single neuron flashes, adding up to a complex pattern that was . . . normal!
Black-and-white drawing of a group of slowly moving people, a group of quick people, and a billboard asking Vanishers to "contact us".
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena