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   Titus G to Robert Woodward   
   Re: Various YASID (mostly non-SF)   
   14 Jan 26 17:18:15   
   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 13/01/26 19:08, Robert Woodward wrote:   
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   > 1) This story had time travelers who manipulated time by changing events   
   > in the past (and thus generate a new timeline). The story also had a   
   > character (non-time traveller) who remembered the erased timelines   
   > (IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered reading   
   > because they had been written in the erased timeline and not the new   
   > one). I also remember that the last time manipulation that the time   
   > travelers performed in the book erased a time line where that character   
   > had been murdered. In the new one, he was still alive and he did   
   > remember being killed. BTW, sometime during the book, the time travelers   
   > became aware of him.   
      
   Murder in Metachronopolis by John C. Wright?   
   But it was first published in 2010 (isfdb).   
   It is the first story in City Beyond Time sub titled TALES OF THE FALL   
   OF METACHRONOPOLIS.   
      
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