Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:01:55 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: time travel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Steve Smith wrote:

> 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.

Heinlein wrote both the alpha and the omega of time travel/paradox
stories with "By His Bootstraps" and "All You Zombies."

--Ted White