Glitch wrote:
Christopher wrote:
I'm not a Heinlein fan and I've never read anything with Lazarus Long in it.
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Only because I discovered after the fact that the euphemism "'fresher" for "bathroom," which has been used in Trek literature since the '80s, actually originated with Heinlein. And I only know that because it occurred to me to look up the term in
the SF Terminology Citations database when I came across it in a
Star Wars novel as well. (I usually don't read SW novels, but I came upon
Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry at the library, and I was curious.)
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I'm much more interested in your referencing of Stephen Baxter. Did you enjoy The Time Ships? I thought it was fantastic...he's truly an underrated SF author.
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I thought it was pretty effective and interesting, a successful melding of Wells pastiche with modern quantum theory. Though there's one really big plot hole that bugs me -- if every time travel sends you to an alternate timeline, then how did the folks in the time-travelling tanks end up getting back to the same early-20th-century timeline they originated in?