Sunday 23 September 2018

Recounting The Future

In HG Wells' The Time Machine, the Time Traveler describes to his dinner guests:

the experience of time traveling;
802,701 A.D.;
the Further Vision.

In James Blish's The Quincunx Of Time, Dana Lje tells Robin Weinbaum and Thor Wald of Dirac messages that she has received from 3480 and from a cruiser traveling from 8873 to 8704. Then these three receive messages from six other future periods. See "Chronology Of The Beep," here.

Wish fulfillment: if only we could sit in comfort and receive accurate information about future history.

James Blish and Poul Anderson are worthy successors of Wells.

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