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Terminator Books
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by (shelved 20 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,081 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 17 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,068 ratings — published 1985

by (shelved 14 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.71 — 299 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 14 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,437 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 14 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.87 — 543 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 14 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.93 — 712 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 13 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.74 — 257 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 13 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.95 — 332 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 13 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.91 — 607 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 12 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.73 — 702 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 12 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.96 — 294 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.65 — 131 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.62 — 52 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.70 — 92 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.70 — 64 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.86 — 139 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 11 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.89 — 427 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 10 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.31 — 94 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 10 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.34 — 247 ratings — published 1990

by (shelved 10 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.52 — 27 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 9 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.90 — 21 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 9 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.82 — 103 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 8 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.67 — 21 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 8 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.39 — 69 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 7 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.17 — 125 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 7 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.56 — 84 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 7 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.13 — 292 ratings — published 1984

by (shelved 6 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.85 — 193 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 6 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.07 — 74 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.50 — 347 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.20 — 56 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.32 — 63 ratings — published 1993

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.33 — 45 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.81 — 37 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 5 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.82 — 136 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 4 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.76 — 62 ratings — published

by (shelved 4 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.83 — 18 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 4 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.83 — 71 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 4 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.80 — 49 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.75 — 12 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.71 — 21 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 3.72 — 93 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.96 — 23 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 2.73 — 55 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 3 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.19 — 67 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 2 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 2 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 2 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 2 times as terminator)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2014

“The ultimate irony in this vast struggle (available to audience members who want to think about it but easily ignored by those who accept the semi-happy ending ) is the irony in many time loop (or ontological paradox) stories: John Connor has created himself (though he has not gone as far as the character in Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” who is both his own father and mother). Far worse, by saving his mother’s life and ensuring the destruction of the Terminator, John Connor has created Skynet just as surely as Skynet has created John Connor by trying to kill him. Both Connor and Skynet exist in a time loop without outside causality. The Terminator’s surviving arm makes Skynet possible, but it is never invented, only found and back-engineered. Kyle Reese comes across time for Sarah Connor because of a picture and because John Connor asks him to, but neither the picture nor John Connor would exist if Reese had not already gone back in time. The simplest way to save the world is to let the Terminator kill Sarah Connor. Then (in all probability), no one would find a piece of the advanced technology, and Skynet could not be built. But, Cameron’s plot suggests, the “perils to come that would result from our hubris and blind faith in technology” may be inescapable, a time loop, a feedback loop, leading directly if not necessarily inevitably to destruction."Fighting the History Wars on the Big Screen: From the Terminator to Avatar" from The Films of James Cameron”
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