BOC: "No-Zilla"

M R Godwin hssmrg at BATH.AC.UK
Wed Jun 10 09:26:49 EDT 1998


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, SPRAWL wrote:
> name one single instance in any work of fiction where the act of
> altering the past was handled properly. the closest i've seen was in an
> episode of red dwarf, and that was atrocious!
> IMO, anytime time travel is introduced, things are bound to get silly.

BOC lyricist Michael Moorcock uses the concept of the 'Morphail Effect' in
his excellent book "Dancers at the end of time". The hero, Jherek
Carnelian, can only go back in time if he doesn't make any changes to
history, otherwise the Morphail Effect bumps him straight back, or out of
time to somewhere else.

Kroofroodi mibix

- Mike Godwin



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