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Perry Binder is a legal studies professor in Atlanta, GA.
Reviewed by Lex Allen for Readers' Favorite
June 4, 1968—The Last Fall by Perry Binder concludes a three-part short story series that began with part one, The Last Fall Semester, and part two, The Fallout. When a close friend, Axelle Flick, shows him his time-travel invention, Woody Endicott, a lifelong student and current professor of history, immediately sees its potential. Determining that the series of murders and assassinations of popular American politicians and activists was responsible for the current lack of empathy, reason, and the move toward the political right, he decided that the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968 was among the most pivotal. Along with one of his top students, Woody travels back to June 4, 1968, to stop the assassination of Kennedy, the current leading democrat for President of the United States.
As a writer of "what if" science fiction, combined with non-fiction historical and current events, I was deeply impressed and captivated by Perry Binder's smooth mix of documented historical events with scientific "what if" fiction. He created a plausible story while simultaneously acknowledging the drawbacks and potential disaster of changing the course of history. The entire story reveals Binder's strong sense of story flow, with short but targeted narrative, dialogue that rings true, and is specific to the characters speaking. Woody's struggles to control the emotions affected by his decisions, and the repercussions of those decisions, are particularly poignant. At the conclusion, the author's notes include a 1966 quote by Robert F. Kennedy that captures the motivation and message of The Last Fall: "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events."
