Diving Universe 1A
Diving into the Wreck
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The first story in the Diving Universe series finds the captain
(a.k.a. “Boss”) of Nobody’s Business and her motley crew of five wreck
divers grappling with a five-thousand-year-old derelict spaceship that’s farther from
Earth than it has any right to be. Their own spaceship has an FTL
Drive, which always implies time travel, and there are suggestions that the old ship
has areas of differing time rates based on interdimensional, parallel universe hand-waving, but the confirmation
of actual time travel doesn’t occur until later in the Diving Universe series.
— Michael Main
A few documents, smuggled to the colonies on Earth’s Moon, suggested that stealth tech
was based on interdimensional science—that the ships didn’t vanish off radar because
of a “cloak” but because they traveled, briefly, into another world—a parallel
universe that’s similar to our own.
I recognized the theory—it’s the one on which time travel is based, even though we’ve never discovered time travel, at least not in any useful way, and researchers all over the universe discourage experimentation in it. They prefer the other theory of time travel, the one that says time is not linear, that we only perceive it as linear, and to actually time travel would be to alter the human brain.
But what Squishy is telling me is that it’s possible to time travel, it’s
possible to open small windows in other dimensions, and bend them to our will.
“Diving into the Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2005.