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* FutureSocietyPresentValues: The lack of any ethics, or any requirement for ethical approval, is shocking—especially given that ethical treatment of research subjects was a very hot topic (due to the disclosures of Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims just 13 years before the story was written). It's not certain that a [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal]] would be considered any more of a person than a chimpanzee is, which was probably Dr Asimov's point. Outside of Ms Fellowes and Dr Hoskins, Timmie is known as "ape-boy" rather than a person.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: The lack of any ethics, or any requirement for ethical approval, is shocking—especially given that ethical treatment of research subjects was a very hot topic (due to the disclosures of Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims just 13 years before the story was written). It's not certain that a [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal]] would be considered any more of a person than a chimpanzee is, which was probably Dr Asimov's point. Outside of Ms Fellowes and Dr Hoskins, Timmie is known as "ape-boy" rather than a person.
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This story was adapted into [[Recap/TheUglyLittleBoy an episode]] of ''Series/ClassicsDarkAndDangerous'' in 1977 directed by Creator/BarryMorse and Creator/DonThompson. In 1989, Creator/TorBooks published it as #9 in their DoubleSidedBook series, with ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff'' on the opposite side. In 1992, this story was adapted into [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1991 a novel]] co-written with Creator/RobertSilverberg. In addition, "The Ugly Little Boy" was republished twenty times, including eight of Dr Asimov's [[{{Anthology}} collections]]; ''Literature/NineTomorrows'' (1959), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/RobotDreams'' (1986), ''Literature/OtherWorldsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1987), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989), ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990), ''Literature/DieAsimovChronikDieVierteGeneration'' (1991), and ''Literature/FoundationsFriendsStoriesInHonorOfIsaacAsimov'' (1997).
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This story was adapted into [[Recap/TheUglyLittleBoy an episode]] of ''Series/ClassicsDarkAndDangerous'' in 1977 directed by Creator/BarryMorse and Creator/DonThompson. In 1989, Creator/TorBooks published it as #9 in their DoubleSidedBook series, with ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff'' on the opposite side. In 1992, this story was adapted into [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1991 a novel]] co-written with Creator/RobertSilverberg. In addition, "The Ugly Little Boy" was republished twenty times, including eight of Dr Asimov's [[{{Anthology}} collections]]; collections]]: ''Literature/NineTomorrows'' (1959), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/RobotDreams'' (1986), ''Literature/OtherWorldsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1987), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989), ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990), ''Literature/DieAsimovChronikDieVierteGeneration'' (1991), and ''Literature/FoundationsFriendsStoriesInHonorOfIsaacAsimov'' (1997).
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This story was adapted into [[Recap/TheUglyLittleBoy an episode]] of ''Series/ClassicsDarkAndDangerous'' in 1977 directed by Creator/BarryMorse and Creator/DonThompson. In 1989, Creator/TorBooks published it as #9 in their DoubleSidedBook series, with ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff'' on the opposite side. In 1992, this story was adapted into [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1992 [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1991 a novel]] co-written with Creator/RobertSilverberg. In addition, "The Ugly Little Boy" was republished twenty times, including eight of Dr Asimov's [[{{Anthology}} collections]]; ''Literature/NineTomorrows'' (1959), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/RobotDreams'' (1986), ''Literature/OtherWorldsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1987), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989), ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990), ''Literature/DieAsimovChronikDieVierteGeneration'' (1991), and ''Literature/FoundationsFriendsStoriesInHonorOfIsaacAsimov'' (1997).
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* TenThousandYears: At the start of the story, the furthest back that Stasis can look is prehistorical times, and this is often referred to as "more than ten thousand years". It's a big celebration when they can finally target someone in the fourteenth century.century AD.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The original {{Novelette}} was expanded in several ways, most obviously by creating a B-plot involving the prehistoric neanderthal tribe that the titular child was taken from.
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First published as "Lastborn" in ''Magazine/GalaxyScienceFiction'' (September 1958 issue), by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this {{Novelette}} was quickly republished in ''Galaxy'''s UK, French, and Italian issues (in November 1958). The title was changed by Dr Asimov.
Edith Fellows enters Stasis One with a plan to help Timmie, then has a {{Flashback}} to when she was offered the job at Stasis Incorporated to explain HowWeGotHere.
Dr Gerald Hoskins runs Stasis Incorporated, and interviewed Miss Fellowes because he needed someone that loved children and understood complex physiological and chemical processes. The company has been manufacturing {{Chronoscope}}s by analyzing mesons and building {{Time Machine}}s in preparation for this grand experiment; they will take a child from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo forty thousand years ago]].
Miss Fellowes immediately takes charge of the scientists and gets the boy cleaned, dressed, and fed. Over the next three years, she sings, teaches, and [[MotherlyScientist begins to love the boy despite her professional approach]]. After an incident where Timmie fights with Dr Hoskins' son, she decides that she needs to rescue Timmie from Stasis, catching up to the opening.
Dr Hoskins has come to a similar decision, and was preparing to send Timmie back to the past that night. Unable to take Timmie with her into the present day, Miss Fellowes deactivates the Stasis bubble and goes to the past with Timmie.
This story was adapted into [[Recap/TheUglyLittleBoy an episode]] of ''Series/ClassicsDarkAndDangerous'' in 1977 directed by Creator/BarryMorse and Creator/DonThompson. In 1989, Creator/TorBooks published it as #9 in their DoubleSidedBook series, with ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff'' on the opposite side. In 1992, this story was adapted into [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1992 a novel]] co-written with Creator/RobertSilverberg. In addition, "The Ugly Little Boy" was republished twenty times, including eight of Dr Asimov's [[{{Anthology}} collections]]; ''Literature/NineTomorrows'' (1959), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/RobotDreams'' (1986), ''Literature/OtherWorldsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1987), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989), ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990), ''Literature/DieAsimovChronikDieVierteGeneration'' (1991), and ''Literature/FoundationsFriendsStoriesInHonorOfIsaacAsimov'' (1997).
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!!"The Ugly Little Boy" provides examples of:
* TenThousandYears: At the start of the story, the furthest back that Stasis can look is prehistorical times, and this is often referred to as "more than ten thousand years". It's a big celebration when they can finally target someone in the fourteenth century.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: This work could be recreated at nearly any time, since the advanced technology is mostly [[HoldYourHippogriffs fancy sci-fi sounding words]]. There's blink-and-you'll-miss-it references to a {{UsefulNotes/Mars}} landing, telenews, and pocket-viewing-plates. The major tech-level change is the TimeTravel that Stasis Incorporated provides, which is leading the field.
* AdaptationExpansion: The original {{Novelette}} was expanded in several ways, most obviously by creating a B-plot involving the prehistoric neanderthal tribe that the titular child was taken from.
* AdvertisingByAssociation: For the {{Creator/Tor}} DoubleSidedBook, the {{Tagline}} also credits Dr Asimov as the author of ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation'', which he had first published the year before.
* AffectionateNickname: When surprised by the reporters, Nurse Fellowes immediately names and nicknames the titular neanderthal boy. His name is Timothy, but throughout the story, she calls him Timmie.
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: When the TimeTravel research company starts, the most recent time period they can access is caveman times, and they pull a child "forward" into Stasis. The child himself looks ugly because of the differences between modern humans and neanderthals.
* BilledAboveTheTitle: For the {{Creator/Tor}} DoubleSidedBook, Dr Asimov's name is printed as large as the title itself and above everything except "Tor double no. 9".
* {{Chronoscope}}: Dr Hopkins and Stasis Incorporated use [[{{Technobabble}} mesonic intertemporal detection]] to "see" the past. It works by sending meson particles backwards into time and analyzing the way they're reflected. It doesn't create clear pictures, but it's a necessary component to their TimeMachine.
* ContemporaryCaveman: A [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals neanderthal child]] has been brought "forward" to our time thanks to TimeTravel experiments done by a research organization.
* DatedHistory: One of the first complete neanderthal skeletons discovered is that of a male with a twisted, bent spine, a wasted lower jaw, and a pronounced hunchback. Archaeologists assumed this was a typical neanderthal skeleton, extrapolating them as hunchbacked, chinless knuckle-draggers. In this story, Timmie is described as a younger version of this overall shape, unable to quite master an American English accent because of a difference in his mouth structure. Later skeletons, however, showed that the original was atypical, being over sixty years old; suffering from severe arthritis and bone wastage. Current theory suggest that a neanderthal would likely look very similar to a modern human.
* DoubleSidedBook: Creator/TorBooks double-sided book series: #9 is ''Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy'' and ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff''.
* EquivalentExchange: Timmie, the titular character, is a Neanderthal youth scooped out of the past and kept in a suite of rooms specially "time-shielded". Bringing him fully into the present would require the expenditure of a mass-equivalent amount of energy proportional to the distance he traveled in time. The various rooms of different time-shielded artifacts are constantly costing energy because of air from the past escaping into the present (the present-day air heading into the past isn't costing energy).
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: From context, it's clear that Dr Hopkins is using round numbers because the system Stasis Incorporated uses to [[{{Chronoscope}} choose a target in time]] isn't precise enough. Timmie, for example, is said to come from forty thousand years ago, and they're initially unable to "see" anything closer than TenThousandYears.
* FrazettaMan: The InUniverse portrayal of Timmie by the newspapers is an "ape-boy" to sensationalize stories told to an ignorant public. AvertedTrope by the child himself, who is intelligent, learns to speak and read English, and plays with the Director's son, who is roughly the same age.
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens with Edith Fellowes visiting Timmie for the last time, because she plans to save his life. Then it goes back three years to when she was first offered a job by Stasis Incorporated.
* MotherlyScientist: Edith Fellowes was a pediatric nurse before applying for the job at Stasis, Incorporated. She was hired to take care of an experiment; [[TimeTravel taking a boy from forty thousand years in the past and bringing him to the present]]. After three years of caring for the boy, bathing him, dressing him, feeding him, helping him sleep, teaching him how to read/write English, naming him, Ms Fellowes has fallen [[AffectionateNickname in love with Timmie]]. The boy, in turn, thinks of her as his mother.
* MrExposition: Dr Hoskins is both the Director of Stasis Incorporated and the person Miss Fellowes learns the most from. His narrative role is to provide answers, but the way several of these answers are provided round out his characterization and deepen their [[TheNotLoveInterest not romantic relationship]].
* TheNotLoveInterest: Miss Fellowes develops a crush on Dr Hoskins, but his wife and family are used to clearly shut down the possibility of a romantic relationship developing. Despite that, Miss Fellowes must struggle with her feelings for him, seeing an ersatz relationship through the way they created Timmie (it was his mathematics and company that "gave birth" to Timmie, while she's been taking care of his physical and emotional needs).
* OneWordTitle: The original title is "Lastborn".
* OrwellianRetcon: Dr Asimov didn't like the original title, so when given the chance, he changed it back to his WorkingTitle.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Both versions of the title refer to Timmie, whose role in the story is to be cared for by Edith Fellowes. The story follows her perspective and actions, her role within Stasis Incorporated as Timmie's caretaker. Usually, we only discover what Timmie is feeling based on what she's telling the other characters.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The lack of any ethics, or any requirement for ethical approval, is shocking—especially given that ethical treatment of research subjects was a very hot topic (due to the disclosures of Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims just 13 years before the story was written). It's not certain that a [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal]] would be considered any more of a person than a chimpanzee is, which was probably Dr Asimov's point. Outside of Ms Fellowes and Dr Hoskins, Timmie is known as "ape-boy" rather than a person.
* {{Tagline}}: "What is the price of one boy's life?" -- Creator/TorBooks [[DoubleSidedBook double-book]] #9, 1989.
* {{Technobabble}}: "Mesonic intertemporal detection"; Dr Hoskins' explaination for their ability to [[{{Chronoscope}} "see" the past]] and choose what area of time/space they [[TimeTravel create a bubble of "not time" around to bring forward into the present]].
* TimeMachine: Stasis, Incorporated is a business that constructs entire rooms that can pull a cubic volume of matter [[TimeTravel from the past into the not-present]]. Any matter that escapes the room/bubble of not-present which originated in the past causes massive power loss, even air.
* TimeTravel: Stasis, Incorporated is a business where a TimeMachine is used to move objects and people in a very limited capacity. When they perform the Stasis One experiment with Timmie, that's the nearest to their present-day that they can reach. As their technology gets better, they prepare to replace the Neanderthal experiment with Project Middle Ages.
* TheWatson:
** Candide Deveney, the science writer of the Telenews, is used to ask questions of Dr Hoskins about the nature of TimeTravel in this work. It gives a basic explanation to both Miss Fellowes and the audience.
** Edith Fellowes, [[MotherlyScientist nurse and guardian for Timmie]], only knows as much about Stasis, Incorporated, as the audience does. Dr Hoskins offers to guide her on a personal tour of the facility. He explains several of the finer details about the technology, laying [[{{Foreshadowing}} the groundwork]] for some of the events later in the story.
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Edith Fellows enters Stasis One with a plan to help Timmie, then has a {{Flashback}} to when she was offered the job at Stasis Incorporated to explain HowWeGotHere.
Dr Gerald Hoskins runs Stasis Incorporated, and interviewed Miss Fellowes because he needed someone that loved children and understood complex physiological and chemical processes. The company has been manufacturing {{Chronoscope}}s by analyzing mesons and building {{Time Machine}}s in preparation for this grand experiment; they will take a child from [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo forty thousand years ago]].
Miss Fellowes immediately takes charge of the scientists and gets the boy cleaned, dressed, and fed. Over the next three years, she sings, teaches, and [[MotherlyScientist begins to love the boy despite her professional approach]]. After an incident where Timmie fights with Dr Hoskins' son, she decides that she needs to rescue Timmie from Stasis, catching up to the opening.
Dr Hoskins has come to a similar decision, and was preparing to send Timmie back to the past that night. Unable to take Timmie with her into the present day, Miss Fellowes deactivates the Stasis bubble and goes to the past with Timmie.
This story was adapted into [[Recap/TheUglyLittleBoy an episode]] of ''Series/ClassicsDarkAndDangerous'' in 1977 directed by Creator/BarryMorse and Creator/DonThompson. In 1989, Creator/TorBooks published it as #9 in their DoubleSidedBook series, with ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff'' on the opposite side. In 1992, this story was adapted into [[Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy1992 a novel]] co-written with Creator/RobertSilverberg. In addition, "The Ugly Little Boy" was republished twenty times, including eight of Dr Asimov's [[{{Anthology}} collections]]; ''Literature/NineTomorrows'' (1959), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/RobotDreams'' (1986), ''Literature/OtherWorldsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1987), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989), ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990), ''Literature/DieAsimovChronikDieVierteGeneration'' (1991), and ''Literature/FoundationsFriendsStoriesInHonorOfIsaacAsimov'' (1997).
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!!"The Ugly Little Boy" provides examples of:
* TenThousandYears: At the start of the story, the furthest back that Stasis can look is prehistorical times, and this is often referred to as "more than ten thousand years". It's a big celebration when they can finally target someone in the fourteenth century.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: This work could be recreated at nearly any time, since the advanced technology is mostly [[HoldYourHippogriffs fancy sci-fi sounding words]]. There's blink-and-you'll-miss-it references to a {{UsefulNotes/Mars}} landing, telenews, and pocket-viewing-plates. The major tech-level change is the TimeTravel that Stasis Incorporated provides, which is leading the field.
* AdaptationExpansion: The original {{Novelette}} was expanded in several ways, most obviously by creating a B-plot involving the prehistoric neanderthal tribe that the titular child was taken from.
* AdvertisingByAssociation: For the {{Creator/Tor}} DoubleSidedBook, the {{Tagline}} also credits Dr Asimov as the author of ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation'', which he had first published the year before.
* AffectionateNickname: When surprised by the reporters, Nurse Fellowes immediately names and nicknames the titular neanderthal boy. His name is Timothy, but throughout the story, she calls him Timmie.
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: When the TimeTravel research company starts, the most recent time period they can access is caveman times, and they pull a child "forward" into Stasis. The child himself looks ugly because of the differences between modern humans and neanderthals.
* BilledAboveTheTitle: For the {{Creator/Tor}} DoubleSidedBook, Dr Asimov's name is printed as large as the title itself and above everything except "Tor double no. 9".
* {{Chronoscope}}: Dr Hopkins and Stasis Incorporated use [[{{Technobabble}} mesonic intertemporal detection]] to "see" the past. It works by sending meson particles backwards into time and analyzing the way they're reflected. It doesn't create clear pictures, but it's a necessary component to their TimeMachine.
* ContemporaryCaveman: A [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals neanderthal child]] has been brought "forward" to our time thanks to TimeTravel experiments done by a research organization.
* DatedHistory: One of the first complete neanderthal skeletons discovered is that of a male with a twisted, bent spine, a wasted lower jaw, and a pronounced hunchback. Archaeologists assumed this was a typical neanderthal skeleton, extrapolating them as hunchbacked, chinless knuckle-draggers. In this story, Timmie is described as a younger version of this overall shape, unable to quite master an American English accent because of a difference in his mouth structure. Later skeletons, however, showed that the original was atypical, being over sixty years old; suffering from severe arthritis and bone wastage. Current theory suggest that a neanderthal would likely look very similar to a modern human.
* DoubleSidedBook: Creator/TorBooks double-sided book series: #9 is ''Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy'' and ''Literature/TheWidgetTheWadgetAndBoff''.
* EquivalentExchange: Timmie, the titular character, is a Neanderthal youth scooped out of the past and kept in a suite of rooms specially "time-shielded". Bringing him fully into the present would require the expenditure of a mass-equivalent amount of energy proportional to the distance he traveled in time. The various rooms of different time-shielded artifacts are constantly costing energy because of air from the past escaping into the present (the present-day air heading into the past isn't costing energy).
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: From context, it's clear that Dr Hopkins is using round numbers because the system Stasis Incorporated uses to [[{{Chronoscope}} choose a target in time]] isn't precise enough. Timmie, for example, is said to come from forty thousand years ago, and they're initially unable to "see" anything closer than TenThousandYears.
* FrazettaMan: The InUniverse portrayal of Timmie by the newspapers is an "ape-boy" to sensationalize stories told to an ignorant public. AvertedTrope by the child himself, who is intelligent, learns to speak and read English, and plays with the Director's son, who is roughly the same age.
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens with Edith Fellowes visiting Timmie for the last time, because she plans to save his life. Then it goes back three years to when she was first offered a job by Stasis Incorporated.
* MotherlyScientist: Edith Fellowes was a pediatric nurse before applying for the job at Stasis, Incorporated. She was hired to take care of an experiment; [[TimeTravel taking a boy from forty thousand years in the past and bringing him to the present]]. After three years of caring for the boy, bathing him, dressing him, feeding him, helping him sleep, teaching him how to read/write English, naming him, Ms Fellowes has fallen [[AffectionateNickname in love with Timmie]]. The boy, in turn, thinks of her as his mother.
* MrExposition: Dr Hoskins is both the Director of Stasis Incorporated and the person Miss Fellowes learns the most from. His narrative role is to provide answers, but the way several of these answers are provided round out his characterization and deepen their [[TheNotLoveInterest not romantic relationship]].
* TheNotLoveInterest: Miss Fellowes develops a crush on Dr Hoskins, but his wife and family are used to clearly shut down the possibility of a romantic relationship developing. Despite that, Miss Fellowes must struggle with her feelings for him, seeing an ersatz relationship through the way they created Timmie (it was his mathematics and company that "gave birth" to Timmie, while she's been taking care of his physical and emotional needs).
* OneWordTitle: The original title is "Lastborn".
* OrwellianRetcon: Dr Asimov didn't like the original title, so when given the chance, he changed it back to his WorkingTitle.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Both versions of the title refer to Timmie, whose role in the story is to be cared for by Edith Fellowes. The story follows her perspective and actions, her role within Stasis Incorporated as Timmie's caretaker. Usually, we only discover what Timmie is feeling based on what she's telling the other characters.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The lack of any ethics, or any requirement for ethical approval, is shocking—especially given that ethical treatment of research subjects was a very hot topic (due to the disclosures of Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims just 13 years before the story was written). It's not certain that a [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal]] would be considered any more of a person than a chimpanzee is, which was probably Dr Asimov's point. Outside of Ms Fellowes and Dr Hoskins, Timmie is known as "ape-boy" rather than a person.
* {{Tagline}}: "What is the price of one boy's life?" -- Creator/TorBooks [[DoubleSidedBook double-book]] #9, 1989.
* {{Technobabble}}: "Mesonic intertemporal detection"; Dr Hoskins' explaination for their ability to [[{{Chronoscope}} "see" the past]] and choose what area of time/space they [[TimeTravel create a bubble of "not time" around to bring forward into the present]].
* TimeMachine: Stasis, Incorporated is a business that constructs entire rooms that can pull a cubic volume of matter [[TimeTravel from the past into the not-present]]. Any matter that escapes the room/bubble of not-present which originated in the past causes massive power loss, even air.
* TimeTravel: Stasis, Incorporated is a business where a TimeMachine is used to move objects and people in a very limited capacity. When they perform the Stasis One experiment with Timmie, that's the nearest to their present-day that they can reach. As their technology gets better, they prepare to replace the Neanderthal experiment with Project Middle Ages.
* TheWatson:
** Candide Deveney, the science writer of the Telenews, is used to ask questions of Dr Hoskins about the nature of TimeTravel in this work. It gives a basic explanation to both Miss Fellowes and the audience.
** Edith Fellowes, [[MotherlyScientist nurse and guardian for Timmie]], only knows as much about Stasis, Incorporated, as the audience does. Dr Hoskins offers to guide her on a personal tour of the facility. He explains several of the finer details about the technology, laying [[{{Foreshadowing}} the groundwork]] for some of the events later in the story.
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