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| From | Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Examples where authors messed up Timelines |
| Date | 2016-06-07 05:51 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20160606e@crcomp.net> (permalink) |
| References | <robertaw-1E77DA.22232604062016@news.individual.net> <20160606b@crcomp.net> <20160606d@crcomp.net> <drn38cFmk4sU1@mid.individual.net> |
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <20160606d@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
>>
>>nuny@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>>> Anyway, if there isn't one, there should be a story about somebody
>>> going back specifically to kill their grandfather who
>>> succeeds, but the Universe collapses from the paradox...
>>
>>In "Thompson's Time Traveling Theory" by Weisinger, a man named Thompson
>>travels back into past and shoots his own grandfather between the eyes.
>>When he returns he asks two men how far it is to New York. The men
>>tell him that New York was wiped out of existence in the war of 1920.
>>Despondent over changing his present, Thompson turns the gun on himself.
>>
>>Then readers find out that the two men are asylum inmates. And that
>>Thompson's grandfather "had had a white, furrowed scar on his forehead
>>that might have been caused by a glancing bullet."
>>
>
> What was his motivation? Was he trying to prove the past couldn't
> be changed?
Thompson's a writer whose editor rejects a time travel story with this
admonishment:
"Why, the last time I printed a time-traveling story, we
received dozens of protests from readers. No matter how
ingenious be the plot, the old 'grandfather' argument
invariably whips the author!"
So Thompson sets out to disprove the grandfather paradox.
--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU
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Re: Examples where authors messed up Timelines Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-08-05 02:53 +0000
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Re: Examples where authors messed up Timelines Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2016-08-05 18:32 +1200
Re: Examples where authors messed up Timelines "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-08-05 08:37 -0400
Re: Examples where authors messed up Timelines Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-08-06 04:53 -0700
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