Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:19:16 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: time travel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Kit Mason wrote:
 > For what it's worth, my favorite time travel story (though told in
 > other terms) is Ursula LeGuin's "April in Paris," from _The Wind's
 > Twelve Quarters_ (the American version with 12 stories, not the
 > British version with 8 or 9 stories.)

I can't really take the idea of time travel too seriously, so the
stories that I prefer tend to be farces.  The best one, IMHO,
is Alfred Bester's "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed".  By one of
those brain-warping coincidences, this is also quite close to
the current "scientific" version of what time travel would
really be like (quantum many-worlds theory, to be precise).

Also, Larry Niven really worked out a lot of nitty-gritty
details of time travel in "Theory and Practice of Time Travel".
The effect on verb tenses is amazing.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."