Saturday 7 November 2020

Jump

"Fail their jump time, and they would have been in the jump range when something else came in, and that was disaster."
-CJ Cherryh, Downbelow Station (New York, 2001), BOOK TWO, Chapter 4, p. 162.


Wells, Anderson and Cherryh warn us of the danger of occupying the same space as another material object. I think that the Doctor did this once and was blown out of time into the realm of the god of time. In fact, I have just found some relevant previous posts. See here.

A background remark in an sf novel can form part of a literary and conceptual tradition which can stretch back to Wells.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

It would seem obviously catastrophic for two material objects to suddenly try to exist in the same location!

Ad astra! Sean