-SM Stirling, The Golden Princess (New York, 2015), Chapter Eighteen, p. 441.
Posts are few and short when most of a day is spent not reading but visiting churches, temples, museums and cafes. However, this single sentence contains five phrases that I considered worth googling.
Stirling's characters are poised at the start of the Quest for the Shinto sword but it will be a little while before I am able to read as far as the beginning of the Quest proper. Readers can pause or rewind the timeline of a novel. Can superhuman beings do likewise with our timeline? If so, then I think that they must inhabit a temporal dimension transcending ours just as ours transcends the temporal dimensions of our works of fiction. See here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
While I think it is possible there are alternate worlds or universes, including worlds containing some of the same historical characters ours does, they are not "rewindings" of our timeline. I know you think that is the case, but some might think these alternate worlds are the same as ours--with superhuman beings "pausing" or "rewinding" our timeline.
Sean
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