Terry Bisson

writer
Short Story

Two Guys from the Future

Two guys from the future show up in an art gallery (to “salvage the works of art of your posteriors” because “no shit is fixing to hang loose any someday now.”) where they meet a security-guard-cum-artist and her boss, Mimsy.
“We are two guys from the future.”

“Yeah, right. Now get the hell out of here!”

“Don’t shoot! Is that a gun?”

That gave me pause; it was a flashlight.
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  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Scout’s Honor

An autistic paleontologist receives a series of messages from a time traveler who is studying a band of Neanderthals in prehistoric Europe, although his one friend, Ron, thinks that the messages are an amateur sf story.
Heading down for the NT site. More later.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Robot from the Future

Eleven-year-old Theodore, his enhanced dog Bette, and his Grandpa deal with a robot who’s traveled from a post-singularity future and needs a Mason jar of gas-o-line to get back home without endangering the Time line.
“There is no Time machine,” it says. “We are not supposed to be here but our Time line pinched and we are in big trouble unless you can help.”
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel