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KurtinStGeorge:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on March 25, 2020, 04:47:22 AM ---It's not that I think it sickens me. It's that it would diminish my enjoyment of the story. Half the time it's not addressed so it seems like a mistake on the author's part. The other half my response is more "why would anyone write this?" I've seen something where a time traveling character was both father and mother to himself.

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Aside from "All You Zombies," there's a Robert Heinlein novel "Time Enough for Love" (Published in 1973 and it's actually a series of novellas strung together about one character), where the main character, who is 2,000 years old, goes back in time to World War 1 and has a sexual relationship with his mother.  In an earlier part of the novel he performs a marriage for a brother and sister who may also be two of his many, many descendants.  I read that novel sometime in the late 1980's; and while the TV show South Park was far in the future, I remember thinking much like Stan when he said to Kyle in an early episode, "Dude, this is pretty f***** up right here."

On a more serious note, my guess is Jim is going to be very sparing with his use of time travel, other than the novel where Harry breaks the law.  While it's not impossible for Odin to be some kind of progenitor, I seriously doubt it's a road Jim would travel down.  I won't be surprised if we never learn how the Gatekeeper killed Abdul Alhazred; the H.P. Lovecraft character who died in the 8th century C.E., which is long before even Ancient Mai was born.  It might something as simple as Rashid being born in the 8th century and spending so much time in the Nevernever he has time slipped forward so much that biologically he is younger than Mai.  That doesn't mean that Jim will ever spell out all the details.

I expect that even the story with Harry time travelling will have a strong element of "Back to the Future" in it, with Harry not trying to change the future so much as preventing someone else of messing with the past while not changing anything himself.

morriswalters:
I thought I had read everything Heinlein wrote.  I'm glad I missed it.  His last good book is The Moon is A Harsh Mistress.  Which he managed to f**k up by trying to retcon it in another book, I believe The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls.  You could get dizzy trying to keep up.  Tine travel is a cheap solution used by idiots with absolutely zero skills.  You can count the number of times it's used well on the fingers of my fathers hand, which was shy one due to him not listening to his own advice.  The most novel story being the Weapons Shops of Isher.

Bad Alias:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 30, 2020, 11:36:26 PM ---Put your ick away.

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Classic Morris.

morriswalters:
I'd give you non classic Morris but he not very interesting.  ::)

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Yuillegan on March 25, 2020, 04:26:51 AM ---Don't watch Dark (on Netflix), BA. If you think Harry being his own descendant is rough, you ain't seen nothing. Seriously loopy stuff in that show. But also awesome.

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It's so good though.

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