Time Travel Paradox
With plentiful game and with tribute from the Tulat, the Cloud People, who had been driven out of Siberia by the Horned Men, think that they have reached their Promised Land in Beringia and fully intend to settle there. Ralph Corwin, Time Patrol anthropologist, wanting to know how the Cloud People will develop in this new territory, travels a few years into the future only to learn that they will after all continue to move southward as soon as the following spring. He does not yet know why and thinks that the Patrol naturalist, Wanda Tamberly, might help him to find out. Sure. She will cause it.
There will be no more migration from Siberia for another fifty years. Thus, Wanda wins that much peace for her friends, the Tulat. Because Wanda knew that the Cloud People would continue their migration, she was not guilty of changing the course of events. Not exactly...
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But Wanda skirted so close to violating the Prime Directives under which the Time Patrol operated that she faced such severe disciplinary penalties that she could have been cashiered from the Patrol.
Ad astra! Sean
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