Over breakfast yesterday, I published the 180th post on this blog for May, then let the blog rest for twenty four hours. Meanwhile, I have posted on:
Comics Appreciation here;
Religion and Philosophy here;
Logic of Time Travel here.
In fact, here is the text of the Logic of Time Travel post:
HG
Wells' Time Traveler sends the small model Time Machine into either the
past or the future. He does not know which. There is no way for it to
stop or return. Poul Anderson's Time Patrolmen communicate between years
by tiny robot shuttles with automatic shunts to prevent them from
arriving together.
Manse Everard sends a shuttle from
his New York apartment in 1954 to the London office, June 25, 1894, and,
a few minutes later, receives a typed note from J. Mainwethering,
inviting him to attend with a qualified British agent at 12:00 midnight
on June 26, 1894. Getting an ok (by phone?) from his immediate superior,
Everard sends a note to Whitcomb in 1947 and Whitcomb agrees.
Going
to the Patrol warehouse, Everard gets a timecycle, like a motorcycle
without wheels or kickstand but with two saddles and an antigravity
propulsion unit. He departs to a warehouse in London, 1947, when he is
joined by Whitcomb, and they depart for Mainwethering's gas-lit office
in 1894.
Like Wells updated.
From The Time Machine to "Time Patrol" - two endlessly reread classics. Anderson also incorporates elements of Twain and de Camp as well as of Wells.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would expect Time Patrol agents, and and when appropriate and useful, to use the technology of the eras they were posted to communicate with each other. So, Patrol agents in the 20th/21st centuries would use telephones (with due regard for security).
Sean
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