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Re: Some thoughts on _Space Cadet_ & Other RAH titles?

2010-03-16T05:38:29Z

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:01:32 -0500, d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David
[snip]
Is this thread setting it off?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko

Re: Time Travel in fantasy

2010-03-16T05:05:22Z

David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote in
Of course not. Duh.

Re: Why Larry Niven and the starship Enterprise?

2010-03-16T05:58:38Z

In article <hnmq3d$du...@news.eternal-sep tember.org>,
Not only did this happen, but it is described in a link contained in the
very message that you're replying to.

Re: Why Larry Niven and the starship Enterprise?

2010-03-16T05:58:20Z

In article <vdqtp5lsllessq4d7e1do3d6men3n jc...@4ax.com>,
Why would it be a fundamental flaw? Windows is a strange choice, but
that's just because it's worse than the alternatives, not because it's
completely useless.
Note that the actual failure was unrelated to Windows, but was rather a
lack of robust programming in the *applications* it was running. And of

Re: Why Larry Niven and the starship Enterprise?

2010-03-16T05:53:50Z

In article <hnmu1d$pc...@reader1.panix.co m>,
I could possibly buy it if the ramrobots were *deliberately* programmed
to be useless, so that the colony program could justify sending people
to worlds which the beancounters might not find worthwhile. But there's
no hint of such a thing in the stories....

Re: Be Careful What You Wish For

2010-03-16T05:52:22Z

In article
<8d0c68db-721b-4d0e-bcfc-5626f 373f...@g11g2000yqe.googlegrou ps.com>,
Niven has at least a couple. One is "The Wishing Game", a fairly
standard story in which clever humans trick a genie. Another one is
"Convergent Series", which doesn't involve a genie, nor careful
wish-phrasing, but does result in the character avoiding having to pay

Re: Some thoughts on _Space Cadet_ & Other RAH titles?

2010-03-16T04:47:14Z

Conservation of mass-energy would say that you continue to accelerate.
The effect you see is the rest of the universe slowing down. But if you
push with a 1G force, you accelerate at 1G in your frame. This is the
core of relativity. Explaining how it can work with an invariant
lightspeed is what made Einstein great.

Re: Time Travel in fantasy

2010-03-16T04:23:37Z

In article <slrnhptvbc.pat....@gatekeeper .vic.com>,
Also I seem to recall Diana Wynne Jones' _The Time of the Ghost_
has time travel.

Re: Be Careful What You Wish For

2010-03-16T04:26:05Z

In article <808engFp2...@mid.individual.n et>,
Yes, although it was closer to "worst, stupidest, and most miserable"
(and the wisher forgot the "harm to others" clause, although the author
didn't do anything with that).

Re: Time Travel in fantasy

2010-03-16T04:18:13Z

On 2010-03-15 02:19:39 -0700, Michael Grosberg
<grosberg.mich...@gmail.com> said:
Did anyone mention IF I NEVER GET BACK and its sequel, TWO IN THE
FIELD, by Darryl Brock?
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger explains the time travel
via a "chrono displacement disorder," which isn't magic, but there's

Re: Trolling the Goss

2010-03-16T04:14:12Z

Come to Papa.

Re: Be Careful What You Wish For

2010-03-16T04:11:28Z

In article <08c4e323-3fca-43dd-8ce3-8b175 f6bb...@g4g2000yqa.googlegroup s.com>,
Was it Fredric Brown who did the:
I wish, without any change in myself or harm to others, to become
the worst human on earth.
one?
Ted

Re: Time Travel in fantasy

2010-03-16T04:08:23Z

Argh, forgot about that first one (I discounted ToT thinking it didn't
have backwards time travel, though now that I think about it there
were things like the yeti.) There's also time travel (complete with
paradox) in _The Last Continent_, and an incidental bit that's careful
to avoid paradox in _Guards! Guards!_. Oh, and _Pyramids_ contains a causal

Re: Be Careful What You Wish For

2010-03-16T04:09:24Z

But men can't conceive, so obviously the male wisher gets nothing.
Maureen

Re: Time Travel in fantasy

2010-03-16T03:55:36Z

Terry Pratchett, _Night Watch_
Protagonist is thrown back in time due to an intersection of magical
events; arrives in his own past. Complications ensue.
Mark Twain, _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_ and
Other People, numerous knockoffs of same.
There's not generally any exploration of paradox, though.