the Last Window to Old World

When Altren University opens a time travel research division, Ellie Nelseren is thrilled to land her dream job as the first historian on staff. She's eager to make her mark in the emerging field, and not just for her own sake - as one of the few academics originally from the agriculture colonies, she hopes to pave the way for others to come after her. Her first assignment is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to work with the oldest person on their planet to visit an important historical event, back on the world their people originally came from. And since the time machine requires a living person's memory, it's the last chance to observe this event that anyone on either planet will ever have.It's the perfect chance to prove herself, with a feat even the old world's researchers haven't been able to match. But between university politics and their memory partner's secrets, the biggest challenge might be just keeping the department funded long enough to finish the project. And if she can't pull this off, she might end up right back where she started in the farms...The Last Window to the Old World is a 34,000-word novella containing professional time travelers, a space colony whose past missteps are catching up with it, and an ongoing academic dispute on whether the latest time-bending science has just been magic the whole time.