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Old 04-06-2010, 08:33 AM   #15
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1 View Post
For me, it's time travel in stories that often requires a leap of faith in the basic premise since there are so many time paradox issues that tend to be glossed over or ignored. For me, it isn't an issue as long as time travel is only in one direction, forward. It's when you have time travel into the past that paradoxes become a big problem.
Agreed. To paraphrase Captain Cathryn Janeway: "I hate time travel stories." I've never bought them, and view them simply as another SF-related convention, however realistic, that is used so often that it is simply accepted as possible. Like "warp drive," in fact. Moving organized mass faster than the speed of light? Yeah.

(I should talk: Three of my most popular novels use warp drive, to my continual chagrin.)
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