tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post8587028705798296479..comments2024-03-28T08:01:16.284-04:00Comments on Eclectic writer: Genres -- Time TravelJanet Lane Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15488093917556546485noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post-69277712819781154892010-05-07T14:54:57.925-04:002010-05-07T14:54:57.925-04:00I don't typically like time travel books...or ...I don't typically like time travel books...or time travel in general. Although there was a movie with Meg Ryan I enjoyed. And Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. But otherwise, not so much.Wendy S Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590562856819593365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post-79969291575870084832010-05-06T18:19:38.096-04:002010-05-06T18:19:38.096-04:00Time travel doesn't usually thrill me. Too man...Time travel doesn't usually thrill me. Too many questions. Usually unanswered. Even Jude Devereaux's A Knight in Shining Armor left me cold at the end. It worked for me only as a straight medieval, without the time traveling bookends. The only exceptions I can think of are those when the protagonist pops around, as in some Star Trek episodes and Quantum Leap. And, of course, Back to the Future. Often I just get too caught up with the paradoxical Butterfly Effect type of tangles and can't forget them enough to enjoy the story. Why last season's ridunculous Lost episodes failed for me. On every level.Terrihttp://dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post-52582289066928068572010-05-06T17:58:34.779-04:002010-05-06T17:58:34.779-04:00I love books involving time travel and the paradox...I love books involving time travel and the paradoxs it creates. Whether its by a time travel machine, a magical place, or something as simple as a lost letter I am there for the ride.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11949877431810627840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post-10141485045204567492010-05-05T13:20:29.626-04:002010-05-05T13:20:29.626-04:00My WIP is a science fiction novel where my charact...My WIP is a science fiction novel where my characters travel via spaceship through a stable wormhole into an alternate Twentieth Century universe. They are from our future (or rather, an alternate future), so their medicine is advanced enough to deal with TwenCen disease. They are able to return to their own universe--at least, as long as the wormhole remains stable.<br /><br />I think the difference between reincarnation stories and time travel stories is the characters' mindsets. When characters reincarnate, they grow up in the culture and think of it as normal. In time travel, characters with modern mindsets face a new type of society, one that could have different values. Time travelers may know how history is supposed to play out; depending on the rules of time travel in that story, they may or may not be able to change history.<br /><br />P.S. I found your blog through the BroadUniverse mailing list.Sandra Ulbrich Almazanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15365908651235829765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6690115855424436248.post-35504849745062610792010-05-05T10:12:58.984-04:002010-05-05T10:12:58.984-04:00Well, as you know, I've written time travels, ...Well, as you know, I've written time travels, where a person is literaly magically transported backward or forward in time. In the case of going back, there's the paradox of bringing modern items to a time when they haven't been invented. That creates a whole set of issues on their own, which can be funny, terrifying or downright deadly! <br /><br />As for deadly diseases, there are cases of plague and smallpox popping up now anyway, so even if they did bring it back, I'd bet the strain wouldn't withstand our modern antibiotics. I'd be more worried about not being able to get back and dying of those diseases. And explaining where and how it was picked up would be more a more interesting facet I think.<br /><br />But I agree that reincarnation and time travel are two different things. A person reborn isn't necessarily traveling through time, and many times in the case of reincarnation, they are starting over again with each subsequent rebirth.<br /><br />However, if the person is consciously aware of their soul being transferred into another body, that would be something different yet again. That might even entail possibly bringing all of the knowledge they possess up to that point. <br /><br />So many different ways to look at it, but in my mind, each scenario is very different from each other.Gina Rosavinnoreply@blogger.com