For a Limited Time Only
- by Peng Shepherd
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
For a Limited Time Only
by Peng Shepherd (Amazon Original Stories, November 2025) [ebook].
Russ commutes to work—not across town but through time. An ambitious employee stuck in Oracle Marketing Solutions’ mundane “near past” division, he longs for the excitement of ancient eras and distant futures. But Oracle’s secretive management has refused every one of his transfer requests, and Russ can’t understand why . . . until he makes a devastating discovery about his own timeline.
—from publicity material
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Oracle is founded in 2070. Russ’s present is the 2040s, and his working decade is not long before that.
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: Oracle makes its money through its knowledge of the future.
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: In the end, Russ is repeatedly traveling back to see his daughter.
- Self-Visitation
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: nausea
- Wisdom or Consolation to Your Younger Self
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For a Limited Time Only
by Peng Shepherd (Amazon Original Stories, November 2025) [ebook].For a Limited Time Only
by Peng Shepherd (Brilliance, November 2025) [audio].