(Time Travel) Kate is sure Marzano stole the paper she spent a year writing, but he somehow submitted his for publication eighteen months ago. (3,688 words; Time: 12m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average
"Academic Circles," by Peter Wood, appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction issue 09|16, published on August 18, 2016 by Penny Publications.
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Pro: Kate ultimately solves the problem with her suggestion of a letter. It's amusing that Popov thought to include the lottery numbers in that letter, and, of course, everyone else gets what they deserve as well.
Con: When people are sent back, why aren't there two copies of them? And how would a temporal change leave people with some memories of the previous reality?
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Con: When people are sent back, why aren't there two copies of them? And how would a temporal change leave people with some memories of the previous reality?
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Thanks for reading, Greg. Good points. I can't disagree with your Con observations, but I think there is no way to make time travel stories logical.
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I remember when Sam at Baen's Universe Annex told us that it's nearly impossible to get time-travel stories accepted, so congratulations on beating the odds! Out of ~1500 stories I've reviewed in the past 12 months, only 12 of them were about time travel, and only three (counting yours) were published in Asimov's.
DeleteI listened to the audio edition of this story. It was great! In a funny coincidence, I was eating a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie from Stick Boy at the time. Or, was it a coincidence. . . I wonder. . .
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