Out of Time - Five Tales of Time Travel by Paul Siluch & Teresa Robeson & Russell James & K.P. Hornsby & Janet Guy

Author:Paul Siluch & Teresa Robeson & Russell James & K.P. Hornsby & Janet Guy [Siluch, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-26T08:00:00+00:00

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About the Author

Janet Guy has enjoyed science fiction ever since her parents took her to see Star Wars at the local drive-in at the tender age of six. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two cats. For more, visit www.janetguy.com

Unfillable Void

by Teresa Robeson

Everyone, even Michael at first, underestimated how much the loss haunted Cindy. Nobody thought Cindy would devote her life to studying the nature of time solely to fill the hole in her heart, even as she immersed herself in the subject during the last year of her undergrad degree. Nobody believed she would succeed when the mechanics of temporal movement had eluded some of the greatest minds in physics.

Not her Ph.D. advisor.

“Time travel…can’t be done,” he barked, pointing to the blackboard behind him. “Paradoxes that can’t be resolved, causal loops that are messy, impossible things. And when you consider the infinitesimal probability of tunneling for creatures as big as ourselves...” He shook his head in disgust. “I strongly recommend you put it out of your head and focus on research that has immediate relevancy.”

Not her book club.

“Time travel…what a lame device,” said one woman in the group. “It rarely works well and you can see the holes in the plot a light year away.” The other members laughed at the layman wittiness and poured another round of Beaujolais to go with their Brie.

Even her father, lost in his own heartache, couldn’t grasp Cindy’s relentless obsession. Michael was the only person who could feel the weight of her grief enough to believe her and believe in her.

Cindy and Michael met at a graduate student beer garden at the University of Waterloo. He was initially captivated by her intensity and her mane of black hair that she wore French-braided, and she by his knowledge of Minkowskian geometry and his talent with machinery. But it wasn’t long before the singularity of Cindy’s obsession, with its black hole density, pulled at his heart with such ferocity, he let his soul free-fall into her.

Michael indulged Cindy’s time travel fixation, offering his assistance whenever she asked it of him and even when she didn’t. Michael helped her shed her Euclidean blinders which led to her eureka moment in working out the logistics of movement in the fourth dimension. It was then that she knew she was in love with him, almost as much as he loved her.

He learned of her motivation for studying time travel early on, midway between courtship and marriage. Michael met her father when they took a vacation to Vancouver during the pretty month of July, the month that often fooled visitors into thinking the city was a kind of paradise. Mr. Lau was a slender man with a pleasant but impenetrable, reserved demeanor. He also had the air of a widower still in mourning even though it was nearly a decade and a half since his wife died. When Michael asked Cindy if her father would mind them staying in her bedroom during their visit, she shrugged.

“He hasn’t minded any of the little things in life since…” She couldn’t finish her sentence.

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