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Old 10-12-2024, 11:00 AM   #24
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Yes. With the caveat that it's travel in one direction. It is time travel because the characters jump -- from their perspective -- forwards in time by hundreds or thousands of years. This caveat prevents paradox which makes it one of a very few time travel stories to dodge paradox.
Yeah, to me that's being placed in stasis and waking up later. I don't think of it as time travel but clearly other people do. To me time travel isn't moving forward into the future by one second every second, but you might not be aware of it.

Andrew

PS I love the books though. I just don't think of them as time travel.
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