Paul Levinson's favorite time travel novels that respect the paradoxes
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Paul Levinson's favorite time travel novels that respect the paradoxes
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Paul Levinson
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I am an author of science fiction, as well as nonfiction, a singer/songwriter, and a Professor at Fordham University, and time travel has played a role in all of these endeavors. I’ve written four novels and numerous stories which feature time travel, several songs (for example, “If I Traveled to the Past”), and talk about it in my classes. The opportunity of going back in history and stopping a bad thing has always intrigued me, as has traveling to the future to see how things turn out. The paradoxes that can get in the way of that make thinking and writing and talking and singing about it even more fun.
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The Plot to Save Socrates
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Paul Levinson
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Sierra, a graduate student in Classics, is shown a recently discovered dialog of Socrates in 2042, in which a time…
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The books I picked & why
The End of Eternity
By
Isaac Asimov
Why I love this book
Time travel is easy to do – in fiction. In reality, paradoxes engendered by time travel almost certainly make it impossible. If I travel to the past and change something that I didn’t like, how would I have known to travel to the past in the first place? If I travel to the future and you see me wearing a blue shirt tomorrow, what happens to my free will to put on a green shirt tomorrow? Time travel in fiction that respects the paradoxes is not impossible, but neither is it easy to do. The End of Eternity does this exquisitely and glues you to every page. Plus, it offers a cool way to contact someone in the future: place an ad in a newspaper.
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The End of Eternity
By
Isaac Asimov
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The End of Eternity<br>as one of their favorite books, and they share<br>why you should read it.
What is this book about?
A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation series
Due to circumstances within our control . . . tomorrow will be canceled.
The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will.
You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special. Until he committed the one unforgivable sin—falling in love.
Eternals weren’t supposed to have feelings.…
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Time travel
Genres
Classic science fiction
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Space opera
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The Door into Summer
By
Robert A. Heinlein
Why I love this book
I’ve always thought some of the best science fiction focuses on what could be happening next door – not battles in space, not patrols that police time, but just a family living or a small business down the street. The Door into Summer exults in this everyday life, and throws in such chestnuts as suspended animation just to keep the pot bubbling. The result is a story that could be happening to you and me.
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The Door into Summer
By
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Door into Summer<br>as one of their favorite books, and they share<br>why you should read it.
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A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greats
When Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking.
The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far from having been stolen from him,…
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Time travel
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Exchange Student
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Michael R. Lane,
A sci-fi adventure where the world and its people reshape the possibilities of humankind.
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