tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post6847765529715696032..comments2024-03-28T07:57:49.338+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: The Present And The PastKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-35997454698903630382017-05-07T03:52:27.180+01:002017-05-07T03:52:27.180+01:00Kaor, Paul!
The SF story discussed by C.S. Lewis ...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />The SF story discussed by C.S. Lewis did have an interesting way of stating how an immutable past would affect time travelers. And I agree Poul Anderson was right to say a traveler from the future to the past would find that past to be his PRESENT while in that past.<br /><br />Problem, we don't KNOW if time traveling is possible or whether the past is mutable or immutable. I'm simply glad Poul Anderson gave us excellent examples of either possibility in THERE WILL BE TIME, THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS, and the Time Patrol stories. And I've also come to agree with you that timelines "deleted" by the Patrol were not snuffed out but became divergent, alternate timelines inaccessible to the Patrol. <br /><br />And, of course there's the matter of alternate universe SF, examples by PA being THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, the two OPERATION books, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST, etc. A sub genre which has been much further developed by Harry Turtledove and S.M. Stirling. Of the two, I prefer Stirling's works because I find them more imaginatively worked out.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com