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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
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.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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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One of the things I liked about the anime series "Star Blazers" is that they didn't use faster-than-light travel in the conventional sense. Instead, the ship used naturally occuring space warps to quickly cover long distances in an instant. Considering they had to travel almost than 300,000 light years in one year and they were making several jumps each day, space warps must have been very common.