Monday, 20 July 2026

Unique?

Is Poul Anderson unique in addressing both causality paradoxes; certainly in the comprehensiveness of his treatment of both? (Thinks: it is safer to frame this kind of proposition as a question than as a factual assertion.)

In the preceding post, with Anderson as our axis, so to say, we also referred to time travel works by:

SM Stirling (the series has to continue)
Audrey Niffenegger (we hope for a sequel)
HG Wells (whatever happened to the Time Traveller?)
Robert Heinlein
Tim Powers

- and we know that there are others. What an outstanding list of authors! This literary sequence will continue as long as there are authors and readers with intellects and imaginations.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

You might include William Gibson's THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE to this list if you read it someday.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Maybe.