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|    Don to Titus G    |
|    Re: Various YASID (mostly non-SF)    |
|    14 Jan 26 18:20:06    |
      From: g@crcomp.net              Titus G wrote:       > Robert Woodward wrote:       > snip       >>       >> 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.              Somehow the subtitle's significance eluded me until now. No wonder the       non-novel's non-sequitural narrative was incoherent.        It's time for a hearing. (It was read the first time.) Meanwhile the       adventures of PR's Nike Quinto Action Division will be put on hold.              Note.              [1] https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Nike_Quinto              --       Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. veritas _|_       telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. liberabit |       tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' vos |              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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