tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3038932057206662239..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Time Travel VillainsKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-44134495317396740632023-03-31T08:19:03.954+01:002023-03-31T08:19:03.954+01:00Kaor, Jim!
It does sound interesting, even tho I&...Kaor, Jim!<br /><br />It does sound interesting, even tho I've read only one of Vinge's novels.<br /><br />Ad astra! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-61985719930409199872023-03-29T20:39:03.887+01:002023-03-29T20:39:03.887+01:00"That is Merau Varagan was sent to the exile ..."That is Merau Varagan was sent to the exile planet at Time A, his sister Raor was exiled to a period a thousand years before then."<br /><br />Which reminds me of the story "Marooned in Real Time" by Vernor Vinge. For some stories he assumed the existence of a technology called 'bobbles' which are spherical regions in which time is frozen. One thing that can be done with these is one way time travel into the future.<br /><br />The story is set on post-human earth in which some people are doing that and gathering people who have been accidently 'bobbled', to restart human civilization far in the future.<br /><br />Someone gets marooned alone outside the bobbles at one of the jumps into the future. This a horrid fate inflicted by some enemies of that person.Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-91599482371756183172016-11-02T08:00:18.021+00:002016-11-02T08:00:18.021+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! I can easily imagine that th...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Exactly! I can easily imagine that the information on WHEN a criminal was dispatched to live on the exile planet would be known only to Patrol officers at the highest ranks.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-48891149649002346282016-11-01T23:51:26.765+00:002016-11-01T23:51:26.765+00:00Sean,
This would also make it harder for the Maste...Sean,<br />This would also make it harder for the Master to rescue prisoners - having to find out which different times they were imprisoned in.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-65505808652693016372016-11-01T07:40:03.350+00:002016-11-01T07:40:03.350+00:00Kaor, Paul!
This is only tangentially related to ...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />This is only tangentially related to your blog piece, but I have thought the Time Patrol could easily imprison temporal criminals on the exile planet by sending them to different periods. That is Merau Varagan was sent to the exile planet at Time A, his sister Raor was exiled to a period a thousand years before then. And so on with other persons sentenced to the exile planet. It would have the advantage of preventing very intelligent and very dangerous people from meeting and possibly cooking up some new devilry.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com