Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Four Organizations

Poul Anderson's Time Patrol prevents the past from being changed.

George Orwell's Thought Police change records and memories so that it is as if the past has been changed.

The temporal bureau in Robert Heinlein's "-All You Zombies-" causes the past events that it has caused but only those.

The Service in James Blish's "Beep"/The Quincunx Of Time is an Event Police ensuring future events.

(Blog readers might recognize this as a quick breakfast post before going out for the day.)

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