Florence Nightingale

Tag Area: Real-World Character
Short Story

Finalizing History


In early 1960, Perry Mason author Earl (not Erle) Stanley Gardner and his wife host John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Edward Teller, Ronald Reagan, Douglas MacArthur and Jackie Kennedy to discuss a shared dream in which a time-traveling alien requires them to pick one person to eliminate from history as a prerequisite to a final revision of mankind’s history. —Michael Main
If one of these people dies young, that will pay your debt.
A grid of nine black-and-white head shots of the people in “Finalizing
                History” by Richard K. Lyon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 23*

High Time for Heroes


Jack and Annie are magically transported to mid-1800s Thebes, Egypt, where they are saved from a dangerous accident by Florence Nightingale. —based on fandom.com
Dressed as an Egyptian explorer, young Jack has just gone over a cliff and now
                hangs by one hand in Annie
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel