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The Art of Time Travel Eugene R. Gryniewicz |
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I think of Time Travel, I think of all the old
"What If" questions with which we dallied in grade school and junior high ...
you know
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The Art of Time Travel |
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| Superboy proved conclusively, for me, that history could not by changed. He tried to save Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -- that was the first time I remember him trying to change history; he never quite learned his lesson; he kept trying; he kept failing ... . |
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| Science Fiction authors
showed me the consequences of succeeding, if only by breaking our reality into pocket
dimensions of parallel universes in which Imperial Rome neither declined nor fell ... in
which the South won the Civil War ... the Nazis won World War II ... . James
Tiberius Kirk was forced to choose to allow Joan Collins to be struck by a truck to allow
her soul to reincarnate in Dynasty so that world peace might not come about too
soon ... or something like that. Time Travel -- the very concept is hackneyed and worn -- but still fun. And Kay Weems little collection of tales reassured me of this. |
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| It was/it is fun.
And I welcomed the opportunity to illustrate it. That part was even more fun.
Ultimately, however, I found myself disappointed. The spots I executed were -- I feel -- adequate only. So I conjured this idea ... |
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