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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: A YASID that was not Answered
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:33:17 -0800
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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_."

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com