![]() ![]() ![]() All knowledge of the means by which he was sent is lost, perhaps forever. Major Delgano was sent into the future some hours before the holocaust of day zero. On this spot there appears annually the form of Major John Delgano, the first and only man to travel in time. I come back to it again and again and I can’t really tell you why: There has only ever been one attempt to send someone through time and essentially it blew up the world. My absolutely favorite time-travel story, in fact probably my favorite short story of all time, is The Man Who Walked Home, by James Tiptree Jr, in her short story collection Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home. But it leaves me with a sad, empty feeling afterwards and I’m not sure I like that. So it works for me in that it fits my criteria. The price the protaganist pays seems to be loneliness. He crams it all in there… being your own mother, your own father and your own recruiter to the Time-Travel Bureau. ![]() I think that the best known paradox story in time-travel fiction is All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein. It’s like magic though, in my opinion, and there alwayshas to be a price to pay for it. I love time-travel when it’s done properly. My blogging record this last month has been grim, because of school holidays, poorly children and poorly me, so I threw a question out on twitter asking for a topic and the lovely Elin Gregory came back with the subject of this post. ![]()
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