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Piero wrote: "Harv wrote: "Piero wrote: "Thanks Harv, for you interesting post! And, I am curious about your two sci-fi works, can you tell us where to find them? :)"
Hey, Piero! Only one of my sci-fi novels..."
Hey, Piero! About to do some time traveling. Just downloaded THE GUNS OF NAPOLEON and GAEA to my kindle. Cheers! @hg47
Howard wrote: "Tej wrote of: 'writers perspective...'Tej, bingo, which means quite right in American slang.
I've had VERY GOOD behind the scenes energy transfer with several Group members that are also TT writ..."
Hey, Howard!
OK, I downloaded your Beyond The Elastic Limit: An Epic Fable to my computer; eMailed it to my kindle, but it hasn't shown up yet. Perhaps you and Piero can advise me on GoodReads groups. Are "Groups" where the action is, as opposed to actually reviewing books on GoodReads? This is the first GoodReads group I have joined. Trying to figure out where to put my time and energy. Cheers! @hg47
Harv, hope you downloaded from Smashwords, the latest edit & free, too.And if you enjoy Time Travel this is your group, no doubting that.
Just cruse the threads & comment if you care to & then start your own if you wish, we're always receptive here.
As for other groups on Goodreads, I'm sure many are good but, as I'm pressed I'm a member of only one more, a general book & movie group (James Mason) & between these two I think I'm well covered.
Just look around some before you decide, for only you can choose Grasshopper.
Hope this helps.
Harv wrote: "Wow, thanks, Piero, for this thought-provoking thread on potential time-travel logic problems. I can see you guys are serious about time-travel! I have no specific answers to his questions, bec..."
I agree, Harv. Different stories require different rules for time travel. Absolutely. It's an utter unknown, and that's the beauty of it; a skilled writer can torque it as necessary, and then let it ride to fit the story. Of course, it is a bit easier if one has not spelled out the laws specifically, but that can still be effective as well.
Howard wrote: "Harv, hope you downloaded from Smashwords, the latest edit & free, too.And if you enjoy Time Travel this is your group, no doubting that.
Just cruse the threads & comment if you care to & then s..."
The difference between Amazon and Smashwords, for me, is that with Amazon, one click and a minute later it's on my kindle. With Smashwords, I have to download it; it goes somewhere on my computer that takes me twenty minutes to find; then I eMail it to my kindle, for another delay.
Oh, you'll enjoy this, Howard, I kept wondering why your Beyond The Elastic Limit never showed up on my kindle. I waited. I waited some more. "What, does he write like TIMESCAPE by Gregory Benford? No, we can't actually time travel, but we can send messages into the past. So, Howard's eBook, instead of arriving on my kindle in 2013 is buried somewhere in my 2005 Windows 98 hard drive, And I Didn't Notice It Then!!!"
Finally, I figured it out: I eMailed your novel NOT TO MY KINDLE but to 52 NOVELS, the guy who is doing my P.O.D. version of DAUGHTER MOON.
Oops.
@hg47
E.B. wrote: "Harv wrote: "Wow, thanks, Piero, for this thought-provoking thread on potential time-travel logic problems. I can see you guys are serious about time-travel! I have no specific answers to his q..."
Concur, E.B. Brown.
I see so many logical problems and paradoxes with the notion of Time Travel that I think the writer has to be very careful about supplying too many specific details about the Time Travel rules.
Personally, to make Time Travel work, I rely on misdirection (mass murder, preemptive teleportation, suddenly making the heroine the most powerful woman in the solar system), and completely copping out (superior aliens invented the Time Travel technology, which is beyond our huwoman ability to comprehend anyway). It is also a helpful distraction from the impossibility of actual Time Travel if the Top Theoretical Physicist who is explaining the rules for Time Travel within the story is a scantily-clad woman whose computer-enhanced sexual charms befuddle the (probable) male reader.
People always think I am joking . . .
As you wrote, E.B.: "It's an utter unknown, and that's the beauty of it; a skilled writer can torque it as necessary, and then let it ride to fit the story."
@hg47
Piero wrote: "Dear all time-travel lovers,I don't know if I am posting in the right section of the forum, but I'd like to ask your opinion, as well as your help, on the following paradox:
- in our present, some..."
I know I'm late getting in on this one Piero. Your agent obviously has the use of a time travel machine so he goes back to when the photo was taken. He finds the offending object and discovers it has been left by a fellow double agent from his own future to disrupt the sequence of time. The agent retrieves the object then must travel to his future to return it before anything untoward can happen thereby keeping things in their natural balance. When he returns to his own time the object has disappeared from the photograph. Would this solve the paradox?
Frances wrote: "Piero wrote: "Dear all time-travel lovers,I don't know if I am posting in the right section of the forum, but I'd like to ask your opinion, as well as your help, on the following paradox:
- in our..."
Hi Frances, and thank you for your input :)
I finalized the story some time ago already, and it took a different turn, but your idea is indeed interesting...
Piero wrote: "Dear all time-travel lovers,I don't know if I am posting in the right section of the forum, but I'd like to ask your opinion, as well as your help, on the following paradox:
- in our present, some..."
Hey, Piero!
Enjoyed your THE GUNS OF NAPOLEON Time Travel short story. Was that the final product of the questions in this thread? Gave it a ★★★★ GoodReads review. You kept surprising me. Cheers! @hg47
(I don't know if I am posting in the right section of this Time Travel forum. Still not up-to-speed on Groups.)
Thanks Harv!The best reward for a writer is to hear such good words from Readers (even more if they are writers too) ;)(your book is much longer, so it will take more time for me to give you my opinion :)))) )
Hi all!Another short-short time travel story.. for free from 28 to 31 March :)
This one was born in barely 10-15 minutes, while walking home under the first italian spring sun after a glass of red wine with my wife.... (was it wine's fault?!?) :-)
Please, if you read it, leave a review (either good or bad, do not spare your words!)... it is very short, some 1200 words!
http://www.amazon.com/God-Does-Play-D...
Hola! Really nobody interested in reading a free (barely) four pages story? ;)
C'mon, I need some feedback :)
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Really nobody interested in reading a free (barely) four pages story? ;)
C'mon, I need some feedback :)"
I am, I am, Piero, stories written under the influence of alcohal can give interesting results! Will report back soon.
Tej wrote: "I am, I am, Piero, stories written under the influence of alcohol can ..."Some sage advice from Ernest Hemingway: "Write Drunk: Edit sober." The man probably knew what he was talking about.
Paul S.
Paul wrote: "Tej wrote: "I am, I am, Piero, stories written under the influence of alcohol can ..."Some sage advice from Ernest Hemingway: "Write Drunk: Edit sober." The man probably knew what he was talking ..."
Damn! I've been doing it backwards. I write sober and edit drunk. @hg47
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"Write Drunk: Edit sober." The man probably knew what he was talking about..."
Very good advice. I used to have this weird idea that I couldn't write until I was under the influence of yoga, music, and alcohol ... and facing the correct direction. Hmm ... maybe that's why I haven't written in so long. Got to revisit that routine and get a laptop so I can have the correct feng shui...
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Another short-short time travel story.. for free from 28 to 31 March :)
This one was born in barely 10-15 minutes, while walking home under the first italian spring sun after a glass of re..."
Read. Reviewed: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Dera friend, from this post some time ago a short story was born, thank to all of your comments/suggestions :) and now from that story a full lenght novel is seeing the light.Just wanted to share with you my feelings :-)
I would like to post here the tralier I am preparing, just to tease a bit your curiosity, but I have no idea on how to do it! :))))
If it's not a sin here, I'd like to go back to this somewhat dated thread and give a response to the original question.If time travel agent t1 arrives with a cellphone at T1, and is photographed at T2
In the future at T3, an agent is sent back in time to investigate T2. They have to arrive at some time
Rob wrote: "If it's not a sin here, I'd like to go back to this somewhat dated thread and give a response to the original question.If time travel agent t1 arrives with a cellphone at T1, and is photographed ..."
Hi Rob, interesting point of view!
Actually, after this post, a short story was written, and then a novel (to be published soon, I hope), where - anyway - the role of the 'smartphone' (rectius: a tablet) has been diminished ;)
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Yep, I agree with Howard... and I wouldn't have completed my TT story without the 'energy' coming from support by friends and by this forum too ;)