When a meteor lands on the beachfront airfield of our narrator and his partner Charlie King,
Charlie realizes that it provides a
space-time portal through which
they view the death-at-sea of Charlie’s ex-fiancée.
— Michael Main
A terrestrial astronomer may reckon that the outburst on Nova Persei occurred a century
before the great fire of London, but an astronomer on the Nova may reckon with equal
accuracy that the great fire occurred a century before the outburst on the Nova.