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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: A YASID that was not Answered
Date: 7 Nov 2024 21:00:25 GMT
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In article <robertaw-3760E9.10331607112024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>I believe that I first posted this about 2 decades ago (thus recent was 
>then):
>
>"The recent discussions of parallel worlds reminded me of a book (I 
>think it was a novel rather than a story in an anthology) that I read 
>sometime in the 60s. This book had time travelers who manipulated time 
>by changing events in the past (and thus generate a new timeline). The 
>book also had a character (non-time traveller) who remembered the erased 
>timelines (IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered 
>reading because they had been written in the erased timeline and not the 
>new one). I also remember that the last time manipulation that the time 
>travelers performed in the book erased a time line where that character 
>had been murdered. In the new one, he was still alive and he did 
>remember being killed. Also, it is not Laumer's _The Great Time Machine 
>Hoax_ (or _Dinosaur Beach_), Brunner's _Times Without Number_, one of 
>Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories (nor _Corridors of Time_), or 
>Asimov's _The End of Eternity_."
>


	IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered
	reading because they had been written in the erased timeline
	and not the new one.

Have you considered that you are that character?
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