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Douglas E. Richards:
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(view spoiler)[Thank you for the great books.
In regards to Split Second. Excellent read. It has always been one of my pet peeves in science fiction that time travel does not take into account the motions of stellar bodies. Given that we are moving in five directions at once. I was wondering if you were aware of the 1970 Star Trek TOS Novel Spock Must Die by James Blish? It deals with transporter duplicates. (hide spoiler)]
In regards to Split Second. Excellent read. It has always been one of my pet peeves in science fiction that time travel does not take into account the motions of stellar bodies. Given that we are moving in five directions at once. I was wondering if you were aware of the 1970 Star Trek TOS Novel Spock Must Die by James Blish? It deals with transporter duplicates. (hide spoiler)]
Douglas E. Richards
Thanks for the kind words. I have read any number of novels my James Blish, but this one doesn't ring a bell. This being said, as I mentioned in the novel and the notes, it is generally accepted from the physics of it, and from Trek books/shows, that the transporter does make duplicates, so it doesn't surprise me that such a work exists. I'd love to read it, but I find that since I began writing novels, I have far less time to read them :) (I also mostly read non-fiction now as I research subjects for my novels)
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Douglas E. Richards:
Masterful plot work in Split second! Did I read you correctly that you think that Hawking's posit on chronology protection implies a cognizant universe? There was another incidence where one of the characters made such a conjecture. My opinion is that there is nothing in the conjecture that isn't merely following the rules of the mechanics of the system. But I am interested in how you view it.
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Douglas E. Richards:
I just read The Enigma Cube, i know you writing so when i was in the middle of it I said "Mmm, I bet douglas didn't even thought about this when i started the book", and in the credits you told your readers exactly that. So my question is, aren't you worried you might write 400 pages and then realize you don't have a good ending? and did it happened to you to have to toss 200 pages to go to another direction?
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