Fiction (France)

Tag Area: Periodical
Short Story

There Is a Tide


A sleepless man, struggling with a business decision, sees an earlier occupant of his apartment who is struggling with a decision of his own. —Michael Main
I saw the ghost in my own living room, alone, between three and four in the morning, and I was there, wide awake, for a perfectly sound reason: I was worrying.
Color photo of young twin girls climbing high in the rigging of a ship’s
                mast.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novelette

Time Is the Traitor


John Strapp scours the galaxy, desperately seeking his lost love’s doppleganger. He may or may not find her, but despite this story’s title, neither he nor you will find any time travel or other time-related phenomena. —Michael Main
I want the name and address of every girl over twenty-one who fits this description.
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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
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

Poor Little Warrior!


You are reading an artsy story, told in the second-person, about a time traveler from AD 2181 who hunts a brontosaurus.
Time for listening to the oracle is past; you’re beyond the stage for omens, you’re now headed in for the kill, yours or his; superstition has had its little day for today; from now on, only this windy nerve of yours, this shakey conglomeration of muscle entangled untraceably beneath the sweat-shiny carapice of skin, this bloody little urge to slay the dragon, is going to answer all your orisons.
A ghostly, green woman looks down on a frightened man in a high-back chair.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

“—All You Zombies—”


A 25-year-old man, originally born as an orphan girl named Jane, tells his story to a 55-year-old bartender who then recruits him for a time-travel adventure. —Michael Main
When I opened you, I found a mess. I sent for the Chief of Surgery while I got the baby out, then we held a consultation with you on the table—and worked for hours to salvage what we could. You had two full sets of organs, both immature, but with the female set well enough developed for you to have a baby. They could never be any use to you again, so we took them out and rearranged things so that you can develop properly as a man.
A man wearing only a skirt stands on a spaceship while firing a ray gun upward
                at another ship.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Time Patrol 3

Brave to Be a King


Patrolman Keith Denison uses some sketchy tactics (sketchy to the Patrol, that is) to track down his partner Keith Denison, who’s disappeared in the time of the Persian King Cyrus the Great, —Michael Main
In the case of a missing man, you were not required to search for him just because a record somewhere said you had done so. But how else would you stand a chance of finding him? You might possibly go back and thereby change events so that you did find him after all—in which case the report you filed would “always” have recorded your success, and you alone would know the “former” truth.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Time Patrol 4

The Only Game in Town


While on a two-man mission to stop a Mongol party from exploring North America in AD 1280, Patrolman John Sandoval gets a cracked skull, which leaves Manse Everard to figure out a way to save John and the mission while waxing philosophical about time travel and the Time Patrol. —Michael Main
Thin lightnings winked from above. The cloven air boomed behind them. He felt a chill, deeper than the night cold. But he eased his pace. There was no more reason for hurry.
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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Time Patrol 4

The Only Game in Town


While on a two-man mission to stop a Mongol party from exploring North America in AD 1280, Patrolman John Sandoval gets a cracked skull, which leaves Manse Everard to figure out a way to save John and the mission while waxing philosophical about time travel and the Time Patrol. —Michael Main
Thin lightnings winked from above. The cloven air boomed behind them. He felt a chill, deeper than the night cold. But he eased his pace. There was no more reason for hurry.
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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

When You Care, When You Love


Sylva—an heiress who is used to getting her way—devises a plan to (sort of) save her terminally ill lover, Guy Gibbon. —Michael Main
But lots of things were crazier and some bigger, nd now they’re commonplace.
Illustration of a naked woman coming out of Theodore Sturgeon’s head, which
                rests on a  hodgepodge of science fiction and fantasy images.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Le notaire et la conspiration

  • The notary and the conspiracy
  • The Notary and the Conspiracy
  • by Henri Damonti
  • Fiction #106, September 1962

Mssr. Duplessis, a notary, joins a secret club that allows him to lead a parallel life in fifteenth century Florence, which with plagues and conspiracies against the prince turns out to be a more dangerous second life than he’d anticipated.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Light of Other Days

  • by Bob Shaw
  • Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966

On a driving holiday in Argyll, Mr. and Mrs. Garland hope to find a way out of their hateful marriage, but instead they find a field of slow glass harvesting the light of other days. —Michael Main
Apart from its stupendous novelty value, the commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that having a scenedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a cottage at the foot of a hill that’s covered in
                large panes of glass.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Novelette

Ligne de partage


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

“Willie’s Blues”


A music historian travels back to the 1930s to uncover the real story of how Willie Turnhill rose from an extra in the Curry Band to tenor sax virtuoso ever. —Michael Main
He thinks of me now as the one person who’ll be able to say who’s the original and who’s the plagiarist when “the other guy” does eventually turn up!
A radio-telescope in front of a futuristic skyline and a bulbous rocket
                launching vertically into an orange sky.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Music and Musicals
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Time Patrol 5

Gibraltar Falls

  • by Poul Anderson
  • in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1975

As part of an crew assigned to crew to observe the filling of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic in the late Micene, Patrolman Tom Nomura breaks the rules to use time travel to rescue Feliz a Rach when she’s swept over the falls. —Michael Main
The Mediterranean floor lay ten thousand feet below sea level. The inflow took most of that drop within a fifty-mile strait. Its volume amounted to ten thousand cubic miles a year, a hundred Victoria Falls or a thousand Niagaras.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel