The temporal inertia effect:
prevents visits either to the future or to any date later than about one million BC;
"'...causes great uncertainty about arrival dates...'" (p. 145) so that expeditions arrive millennia apart.
Built-up stresses in the continuum:
cause whatever is sent back to return to a moment after its departure time after spending only thirty hours in the past;
prevent the bringing back of any matter other than what was sent.
That is one big list of limitations, man, but it is just for this one story.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
In a way, tho, those limitations make "The Little Monster" a more plausible time traveling story than the ones in the Time Patrol series.
Ad astra! Sean
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