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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
The approach to time travel seems to me to be a fudge between the use of a “scientific” drug mechanism and the fantasy method of time-slip such as we see in Alison Uttley. This particular brain drug would seem to have lots of improbabilities. For instance, why should two such different brains as those of Dick and Magnus wind up visiting the same period in time? Why this particular guide? Personally, I felt like jettisoning the entire story set in the 20th century. The links between past and present events didn’t really work for me.
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I said upthread how extremely lame I found the DNA explanation to be. I have no problem with a time-slip and prefer it to torturous explanations, especially if there's nothing inherent in the explanation that will affect the story. A drug that opens the mind to perception of a simultaneous world? That's all I need to know.
I think the consensus, such as we had one, was that it was something particular about that unsettled time that made it perceptible to the drug-affected mind. Similarly, that Roger was the guide because he was seeking the absolution he hadn't gotten so his spirit could rest.
But really, you could argue anything you wanted about that particular drug and variations, which sends you back to the, "it just happened that way."