We Happy Few

by Seth Chambers

What if time-travel was different than anybody ever suspected? In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. Physicists learn that it’s possible to pillage and plunder the past without affecting the present. . . or so it seems. It SEEMS as though there are no consequences to time travel. But one prisoner sees the fallacy of this, because nobody understands consequences like a con. Unfortunately, nobody listens to the lab rats, and so prisoner Daniel "Steak Knife" Hayes must gather a crew, commandeer a time capsule, and launch a desperate mission to save past, present and future, as well as his own sanity. This is not your ordinary time-travel story, but a tale of brutality, courage, unlikely friendship, and ultimate redemption. Seth Chambers spent much of his formative years happily engrossed in the works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Alfred Bester, and numerous other science fiction masters. Seth is the author of What Rough Beasts, Little Bird, and Beautiful Machines. His novella, "In Her Eyes," was a nominee for the Sturgeon award and an honoree of the James Tiptree award. Seth lives in the Chicago area and can be contacted directly at SethChambersAuthor@gmail.com

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

98 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2017

Reviews

[Steve Bellinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are always consequences

There are consequences to everything. Time travel is no exception. As much as I enjoy time travel stories it always it's me when people go galavanting through time like going to the local Walmart. In We Happy Few there are serious consequences involved with time travel. To learn what they are you'll have to read the story. You will not be disappointed!

[Steve Bellinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are consequences to everything. Time travel is no exception. As much as I enjoy time travel stories it always it's me when people go galavanting through time like going to the local Walmart. In We Happy Few there are serious consequences involved with time travel. To learn what they are you'll have to read the story. You will not be disappointed!