Monday, 15 September 2025

From The Future

Either one of our contemporaries finds a way to travel through time:

The Time Machine by HG Wells;
There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson -

- or one of our contemporaries is contacted by travellers from the future:

the Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson;
The Corridors Of Time by Poul Anderson.

As ever, Wells makes a start and Anderson gives us more.

A JB Priestley character argues that travellers from the future are more plausible.

See:


Or just less implausible?

This might indicate which Anderson work we will reread next.

Laterz. 

4 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Not sure what Priestly meant. Time travelers from the future are more likely to have the tech needed for time traveling.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

That is it.

Jim Baerg said...

If time travel is possible, where are the time travellers?
Why aren't there zillions of tourists from the future?

There is Larry Nivens's suggestion that if
1) Time travel is possible.
2) Changing the past is possible
The timeline will get changed until any timeline in which time travel is invented gets eliminated.

Maybe time travel is possible but it needs a receiver, which has not yet been invented.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Jim!

Or maybe time travel truly is impossible.

Ad astra! Sean