As Havig says, they need to preserve the unknown in which freedom of action remains possible.
Friday 23 October 2020
Spying Through Time
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As Havig says, they need to preserve the unknown in which freedom of action remains possible.
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Kaor, Paul!
More likely, given that Anderson uses the immutable timeline premise for THERE WILL BE TIME, something would have prevented any attempt at assassinating Wallis from succeeding. After all, Wallis himself wrote and told others of how he had met himself in old age.
What a strange way of talking that must seem to non SF fans!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Yes, there was other evidence that Wallis survived. I was addressing the logical implications only of that single scouting expedition by Leonce.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And I think Leonce could only have scouted, and not DO anything trying to change history.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Oh, yes. Once she had scouted, she had to accept the fact of Wallis's survival.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly!
Sean
It's sort of like the difference between "alternate history" and "secret history" as literary sub-genres. In a "secret history", the ostensible, surface facts remain the same but hidden data alter their -meaning-.
Ksor, Mr. Stirling!
And a lot of that secret history stuff shades over into wild eyed cockamamie conspiracy theories!
Ad astra! Sean
Cockamamie!
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