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minus-squareDalvoron@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoI like the idea that time machines are like phones in that you need a receiver to pick up the signal. A consequence is that you can only travel back to the time that the machine was turned on.
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoYou may enjoy Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, the short story. The whole book is great if you like thought-provoking sci-fi premises I guess: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41160292
I like the idea that time machines are like phones in that you need a receiver to pick up the signal. A consequence is that you can only travel back to the time that the machine was turned on.
You may enjoy Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, the short story.
The whole book is great if you like thought-provoking sci-fi premises I guess: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41160292