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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