The winter weather has been crudy! Not being able to do normal activities outside, other than split wood for the stove I’ve taken to reading of Sci Fi in the evenings by the stove. The folks at Prompt Central, must have known and sent this one to zing me!
Time travel, as you know, is a new frontier. We are still trying to dig our way out of simple paradoxes. You know, like what happens if you go back in time and stop grandma and grandpa from hooking up. Grandpa saunters down the boardwalk and meets Gabriella instead. You ain’t you, and you either cause a huge fluctuation in the space-time continuum, or ( according to other theorists) the flow of the continuum smooths out, and you still exist. This chestnut has been around for ages, and people are still arguing about it.
So if I were transported to Greenwich Village in late 1964, when young Lou was hanging out at the Cafe Rienzi, I’d hustle right over to the IRT subway line, grab a ride to Penn Station, and buy a ticket for an express to LA. I’m not going to mess with a paradox. Shit! If he had listened to me tell him to practice more, hang out at the Minnetta Tavern less, and not date Susan, he might have been a successful folk singer!
Wait. Be a successful folksinger? Record contracts? Groupies? Big concerts.
OK, maybe I was wrong. The young fool needs a talking to!
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Bradbury’s story “A Sound of Thunder.” If you haven’t read it — too timely, I think. A guy goes back in time, steps — never mind. Just read it!!!
Fantastic response, Lou! I loved it… hugs
Who are your fave SciFi authors, Lou? I like some of the the old classics of course, and a couple new ones, though my tastes lean more toward Fantasy now. My fave short story SciFi lately has been Orphans of the Sky by Heinlein. Have you read it? Marvelous allegory. Recently I read the novel 14 by Peter Clines – SO good.
We’ll never know.