BOC: "No-Zilla"
SPRAWL
sprawl at BLACKBOARD.COM
Wed Jun 10 13:14:08 EDT 1998
Kevin Perry wrote:
> Sorry - I wasn't meaning to be rude about it. They were more rhetorical
> questions than anything else: sugesting (maybe) that the reason it's
> (almost) impossible to get a good fictional account of time travel is
> because of the paradoxical nature of TT and the linear nature of our own
> lives. But that's a bit heavy for a Wednesday.
>
hehehe.. i didnt take it as rude. just thought you might think i KNEW
the proper way to handle time trav.
> > > ii) Julian May's Pliocene saga works very excellently and logically
>
> I'll stick with this one as a good way of hanlding TT. The
> pseudo-scientific nature of her whole universe is very well thought out and
> plausible. It's the internal consistency that makes it work.
i'll have to check this out. all i've read is Hawk of May, and damned if
i can remember it.
BTW. i thot julian was male?
> If you did want to take a logical and pseudo-scientific view of TT in
> fiction (which would prove the most consistent way of doing things), I feel
> that you'd end up with a very dull story (Julian May aside).
true enuff. i mean if youtry to rationalize STNG, you will end up hating
the show. "we must have this vaccine. Millions are dying!" damn, use
the replicator. Worf needs a new spine. transport him and reassemble
him whole. etc etc....
rj
>
> Kevin Perry
> Technical Manager
> Wide Multimedia
> http://www.wide.co.uk/
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