- The story centers around a girl named Elise, the Mobius Corporation, and its CEO, Doctor Rosalyn Schiller.
- The Mobius Corporation is the biggest and most influential technology company in the world, and are responsible for most of the technological advances of the second half of the 20th century.
- The story takes place at the Mobius Corporation headquarters in the fictional city of New Babylon, Delmarva – a super-state formed from Delaware, Eastern Maryland, and a tiny part of Virginia. The Mobius Corporation was powerful enough to have a new state formed around its headquarters.
- The story takes place in a 2012 that’s very different from the one we lived. Anti-gravity, speed-grown forests, and wrist-mounted holographic-screened phones are commonplace.
- The story specifically takes place on December 21st, 2012 – the end of the last Mayan calendar cycle which some people thought to be the end of the world.
- Elise also works a part-time job in a sandwich shop to support her ailing Mother.
- Elise and her mother escaped from her father when they were young. He was not a good man.
- Elise’s Mother had the help of her friend Rose, who Elise called “Auntie” to raise Elise until she was ten.
- The world in the story is focused on the Mobius Girls, a group of almost fifty women who are extremely powerful and influential. All of them were born on or around the day that the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
- The story involves a unique type of time travel.
- When you time travel in this world it can only be to the past.
- Only your thoughts and memories can survive time travel, and everything in the universe gets re-set to your destination. There is no multiverse and there are no alternate timelines. You change the whole of reality.
- Only time travelers retain memories of time that was unwritten.
- Regardless of changes to events or how unlikely, the time traveler will still be born in the world changed by their travels.
- The basis of the story was a dream the author had in 2008. The story has gone through many incarnations and re-writes since then to reach its final form.
- The original story involved enemies chasing each other through time, but the story evolved to be more focused on the ethical implications of time travel.
- Several of the versions of the story have become smaller elements mentioned in the final version.
- From the Story: A mirror. No. It’s not a mirror, it’s reversed. That’s why I didn’t see it. It’s like having a twin!
- Also from the story: “When we send something into the Translocator, it leaves the universe and comes back in at any point.”
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