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|    Titus G to Don    |
|    Re: Various YASID (mostly non-SF)    |
|    17 Jan 26 15:41:57    |
      From: noone@nowhere.com              On 15/01/26 07:20, Don wrote:       > 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.              You have lost me. I do not understand the above comment.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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