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   Titus G to Robert Woodward   
   Re: Various YASID (mostly non-SF)   
   17 Jan 26 15:41:35   
   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 14/01/26 18:41, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > In article <10k75e8$3m73u$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 13/01/26 19:08, 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.   
   >   
   > IIRC, I had posted a YASID for book (1) years before that.   
      
   Yes. Which is why I mentioned the date.   
   It is similar and I recommend it because it is clever, though short.   
      
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