From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Speaking of Time Travelers ... Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:59:48 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> I've been meaning to post a reply to this for a while, as you can see. There's a very good book in which just the sort of time travel this gentlebeing desires is the plot device. It's Replay, by Ken Grimwood, Ace 1992, originally published by Arbor House and winner of the World Fantasy Award, says here on the cover. Unfortunately, you need to die to partake of this brand of time travel. You then wake up "in" your earlier self, with all knowledge intact, which makes for not having to work much in your subsequent lifetimes after you've made a few good sports bets and/or stock picks. But then there's the character development part! A good read. I recommend it. Erica -----Original Message----- From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:48 AM To: WSFA members Subject: [WSFA] Speaking of Time Travelers ... I got the following spam the other day. Looks like one for the kook file. ---- Begin spam ---- Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!!! Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Frank Young (webmaster at htz.com) on Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:05:02 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help! My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!! I have suffered tremendously and am now dying! I need to be able to: Travel back in time. Rewind my life including my age back to 4. Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back. I am in very great danger and need this immediately! I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types. I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist. I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that. If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided. Please be advised that any temporal device that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well as the temporal location. I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless without a vortex. If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also be helpful. I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and the other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken using either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and then sends your consciousness back through time to part with your younger self. Please explain how safe and what your method involves. Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!! Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as mentioned please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel at aol.com Please do not reply if your an evil alien! Thanks -- Steve Smith sgs at aginc.net Agincourt Computing http://www.aginc.net "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."