Time Travel And Everard's Way

There is a lot of sf that I read years and decades ago that I don't want to reread. Poul Anderson is one massive exception. As Greg Bear wrote, "Don't give me feudalism with spaceships unless you happen to be Poul Anderson." The lotus grows out of dark places.

I remember Fritz Leiber's The Big Time as particularly incoherent. Changes suddenly happened in the present because something had been changed in the past! Someone got an extra scar on his hand etc. Someone said, "You can't time travel through the time you travel in when you time travel." It takes time to travel through space but not to "travel" through time. Wells' Time Traveller and Anderson's mutant time travellers do not travel anywhere either spatially or temporarily. They remain stationary on the Earth's surface while undergoing extreme time dilation. Anderson's Time Patrollers do not "travel" either. They just disappear from one set of spatiotemporal coordinates and appear at another. To them, the transition is instant.

I hope to visit Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop on Tuesday but there are a lot of colds going around and I might be getting one. And now it is getting late here and I really do want to get back to other reading.

(In our main shopping precinct, Everard's Way was blocked off so I imagined someone trapped in a past century.)