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More options Oct 28 2009, 12:43 am

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From: VSim <intel...@yahoo.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:43:53 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Wed, Oct 28 2009 12:43 am

Subject: Re: Time travel to fix the past

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Steven L. wrote:
> Ilya2 wrote:
> > A SF trope done to death is time traveler does something in the past,
> > then either finds out upon his return that his own time has been
> > altered (usually for the worse), or simply disappears. In "Lady Slings
> > The Booze", Spider Robinson turns this trope on its head: Lady in
> > question travels into past (into 1986, IIRC) in order to *fix* history
> > -- to prevent US/USSR nuclear war and thus to make her own time and
> > her own existence possible.

> > Has anyone else done this plot: somebody with time travel capability
> > examines history and comes to conclusion that a certain event was so
> > improbable, it could only occur with outside interference, and
> > therefore it is THEIR responsibility to travel into past and to make
> > the event happen?

> Yes, as others have already posted.

> I think it's safe to say that time travel, with all its permutations and
> implications, has been done to death already.

> Probably every type of plot has been done by now.

> --
> Steven L.
> Email: sdlit...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
> Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.

I strongly doubt that.

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