Millennium story
A flight crash investigator discovers that time travelers from the future have been rescuing people from planes just before they crash and replacing them with dead bodies. It is based on the 1977 short story "Air Raid" by John Varley.
11 total · 2 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic love | major | Bill and the time traveler from the future Louise fell in love. |
| time travel | major | Time travelers from the future were rescuing people from planes just before they crash and replacing them with dead bodies. |
| aircraft hijacking | minor | Young Bill Smith was aboard a 1963 flight that a mental patient attempted to hijack. |
| future point of view | minor | Being from the future, Louise didn't understand commonly known things such as cars needing keys. |
| grandfather paradox | minor | Dr. Arnold Mayer spelled out this classic paradox in a speech at what appeared to be the United Nations. |
| humanoid robot | minor | Sherman the Robot functioned as Louise's personal assistant droid. |
| mass infertility | minor | The people 1000 years in the future were all slowly dying and couldn't have children. For this reason they were traveling back in time to collect people to populate their world. |
| pollution in society | minor | Dr. Arnold Mayer mention about pollution and acid rain in a speech at what appeared to be the United Nations. |
| scientist occupation | minor | The Nobel prize winning physicist Dr. Arnold Mayer was investigating about the possibility that time travelers from the future had been visiting his time period. |
| time portal | minor | Louise and her team members traveled around in time by walking through blue portals. |