Alec's Anabis
- ALEC'S ANABIS - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appeared in "Amazing, March, 1977".
Time travel stories always have to deal with the obvious paradox; if you somehow manage to travel back in time and make a change to an historical event, even a small one, that change may produce a domino reaction of changes reverberating into the future that may result in your never being born. As would happen if a direct ancestor of yours were killed because of one of those changes . . .
And if that happened and you were never born, you could not have traveled back in time to make the change. In which case your ancestor lived and eventually you were born. Which means you were able to travel back in time . . .
Which means . . . You were born, No you were not, Yes you were, No you were not . . . Round and around . . .
And so, while science fiction writers have imagined all kinds of possible futures and alternate worlds that may be worth while reading because they say something meaningful about the human condition, and they may be enjoyable as stories, I doubt that "time travel" and "alternate worlds" realities are possible.
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