Dear Editor

Dear Editor: You know, for a “science” fiction editor, you sure let a lot of things slide by. I think by now every one knows that you can’t break the speed of light barrier, and thus time travel is impossible. Or was that warp drive? WHATEVER. It’s all impossible!

IMPOSSIBLE, we say - http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1394

Quality Warning: Mysterious white noise in the background towards the end.  Mysterious!

Content:

• Time Travel:
  • Hyperion
  • Star Trek — lol let’s circle the sun? http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1307
  • Poul Anderson — time travelers strive to preserve the “original” timeline — time travel is for action/adventure and for the meeting of different cultures
  • OSC’s PastWatch — a complicated version of “if you could go back in time and kill Hitler…”
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
  • Rip Van Winkle — what? I fell asleep!
  • Thomas Covenant — serves to complicate plot and add danger

• Cheating Time: (Remember that cheating distance is arguably the same as cheating the time it would have taken to travel that distance)
  • Frederick Pohl’s The World at the End of Time — cryogenics + relativistic travel
  • OSC’s Worthing Saga — “Somec” allows people to sleep away the years, and the society based on it.
  • Neuromancer
  • Futurama
  • Hyperion: Yes, it’s cheating if you can step through a door and end up on another planet
  • Search the Sky by Frederick Pohl (referred as “something Michelle read”)
  • www.qwantz.com - Dinosaur comics, specifically: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1554 PS. The guy who does this comic is really nice.  He helped me find this specific one!

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