Idaho Transfer story
A team of scientists decide to send young people 56 years into the future so they can evade an imminent natural catastrophe and build a new civilization.
7 total · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| force of nature existential risk to civilization | major | It was discovered that a mysterious natural catastrophe of unspecified nature would soon wipe out civilization. |
| the desire to have children | major | Karen went on and on about her desire to have lots of kids to repopulate the world. She was devastated when the others told her sterility is a side effect of time travel. |
| time travel | major | A team of scientists accidentally discovered a way to send things and young people into the future while working on matter transference. |
| what if I were all alone in the world | major | Isa, Ronald and a handful of other young people traveled 56 years into the future by which time they understood that everyone else in the world had died in some kind of natural catastrophe. |
| coping with having been raped | minor | Karen confided in Isa that she didn't consider herself to be a virgin anymore because she was raped by a man named Paul. |
| sister and sister | minor | Karen Braden and her older sister Isa Braden. |
| ecological destruction | not | Although some summaries online describe the apocalyptic event as a form of ecological catastrophe, there was no indication that it was anything other than a natural event, so this theme does not apply. |