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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: A YASID that was not Answered
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:45:25 -0800
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In article <lp4o39FfkbbU1@mid.individual.net>,
 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

> 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?

If I was that character, I can assure you that no time manipulations 
have affected the last 5 decades. I still have almost all books that I 
read in that period.

-- 
"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