Comments on: The Trouble With Time Travel http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2008/11/18/the-trouble-with-time-travel/ Writing, Fiction, Football and Whatever Takes My Fancy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jackdeighton http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2008/11/18/the-trouble-with-time-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-338 jackdeighton Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:05:34 +0000 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/?p=834#comment-338 ogre:- I've not read that one. I doubt I'd be able to get a copy now. Mr H:- maybe the writers of Red Dwarf had read All You Zombies... ogre:- I’ve not read that one. I doubt I’d be able to get a copy now.
Mr H:- maybe the writers of Red Dwarf had read All You Zombies…

]]> By: MrH http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2008/11/18/the-trouble-with-time-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-335 MrH Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:12:39 +0000 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/?p=834#comment-335 Ive heard this problem of time travel and earth moving before, I can't for the life of me recall where, i think it was TV based rather than written. You mention the idea of going back and being your mother etc, I always liked the slighltly less scientific Red-Dwarf on the BBC. In one story line Lister went back in time and to an alternate reality where men give birth and falls pregnant with the 'alternative' female lister. He then travels back and abandons the child under a pool table. Later the story reveals that Lister was found by his parents under a pool table. Hence Lister was both his own mother and father... the mind boggles... Ive heard this problem of time travel and earth moving before, I can’t for the life of me recall where, i think it was TV based rather than written.

You mention the idea of going back and being your mother etc, I always liked the slighltly less scientific Red-Dwarf on the BBC. In one story line Lister went back in time and to an alternate reality where men give birth and falls pregnant with the ‘alternative’ female lister. He then travels back and abandons the child under a pool table. Later the story reveals that Lister was found by his parents under a pool table. Hence Lister was both his own mother and father…

the mind boggles…

]]> By: ogre http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2008/11/18/the-trouble-with-time-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-323 ogre Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:22:58 +0000 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/?p=834#comment-323 The travel-in-space-as-well-as-time problem was taken advantage of in a 1950's sf novel, where time travel was used TO travel in space, to Saturn in fact, though this required the Sun's motion in space to be in the plane of the Ecliptic, which it isn't. I recall almost nothing of the story because I read it about 40 years ago, but the principle used was memorable. I think the book MAY have been Donald Suddaby's Prisoners of Saturn. The travel-in-space-as-well-as-time problem was taken advantage of in a 1950′s sf novel, where time travel was used TO travel in space, to Saturn in fact, though this required the Sun’s motion in space to be in the plane of the Ecliptic, which it isn’t. I recall almost nothing of the story because I read it about 40 years ago, but the principle used was memorable. I think the book MAY have been Donald Suddaby’s Prisoners of Saturn.

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