{"id":2324,"date":"2009-05-24T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:22:47","slug":"time-travel-stories-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/05\/24\/time-travel-stories-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel Stories: Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/05\/time-travel-stories.html\">earlier entry<\/a>, in the process of preparing for my next novel, the time travel story <b>Golden Girl<\/b>, I have been digging into my archives, unearthing a few time travel short stories for your reading enjoyment.  Here is the first one, a short, compact tale titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrymelton.com\/0\/h67.html\">Echoes<\/a>.  It is only 1350 words long, so it should be a quick read.  I was inspired to write it by the 1975 Roger Zelazny story, &#8220;The Game of Blood and Dust&#8221;, which is as compact a time travel story as you&#8217;re likely to get.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, click the Echoes link, read the story, then come back here to answer the following questions:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Does this story give a satisfactory explanation why with the entire range of future history and advancement yet to come, we don&#8217;t see any evidence of future time travel visitors having come to visit us?<\/li>\n<li>How many of the mentioned characters and events survive in our historical records and are there any unexplained gaps that might suggest tampering?<\/li>\n<li>If you discovered evidence of time singularities, what would you do?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an earlier entry, in the process of preparing for my next novel, the time travel story Golden Girl, I have been digging into my archives, unearthing a few time travel short stories for your reading enjoyment. Here is the first one, a short, compact tale titled Echoes. It is only 1350&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/05\/24\/time-travel-stories-echoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time Travel Stories: Echoes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,13,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Bu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}