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12116727 No.12116727 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best depiction of time travel in literature?

>> No.12116755

>>12116727
harry potter, unironically

>> No.12116756

>>12116727
Slaughterhouse-5

>> No.12116858

>>12116727
My diary desu

>> No.12116892

>>12116727
Magic Treehouse series

>> No.12116956

The literature itself is a form of time travel

>> No.12116965
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12116965

Book of the New Sun

>> No.12116994

All my life I've wanted to know if there is someone else as autistic as me. Another Star Trek fan who is as incredibly autistic as I myself am.

Please tell me if the following applies to you at all.

>love Star Trek
>consider myself a huge Star Trek fan
>actually hate 96% of Star Trek
>only realised after a long time that I was basically forcing myself to watch the shows
>reflect on this and realise it's because I hate anything that "ruins the setting"

The following things ruin the setting:
>any time travel episode
The Plinkett Equation shows why a universe with timeline fuckery, let alone time fuckery that is relatively easy to do, will obviously be rewriting its history every 23 millionths of a second.
>easily created, artificial, but sentient life (like the holograms)
This is the most horrifying concept ever. Star Trek has repeatedly revealed that any random dickhead could create armies of willing slaves, create torture slaves, etc. Any random guy could just tell a holodeck computer to create the mathematically most efficient simulation of as many possible sentient minds suffering as much as possible, and save processor power by not even displaying them. Just run it in the background to torture theoretically infinite sentient beings.
>transporter technology
Not only are they constantly committing suicide, life has no distinctness or dignity because it can be created indefinitely from transporter buffers; also, everyone in the universe is retarded for not thinking of this, apparently.
>parallel dimension
Another Plinkett point, infinite parallel universe makes all decisions and characters meaningless because every other possible variation happened too.

All I do while watching 96% this show is procedurally retcon my own PERSONAL Star Trek setting, where things like this never happened and the setting's integrity is maintained. That leaves roughly 9 Star Trek episodes with good scifi concepts that aren't existentially horrifying.

>> No.12117056
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>>12116727
All You,Zombies by Robert Heinlein
Also Time Enough for Love because it has momcest

>> No.12117117

>>12116727
Doctor Who fan fiction

>> No.12118179
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>>12116956

>> No.12118240

>>12116727
Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics

>> No.12118263

>>12116994
yes, I am like you. My favorite episode is The Devil in the Dark, because it doesn't have any fuckery. They just go to a strange world, meet a strange new life form, struggle to understand it, and eventually form a respectful relation with them.

>> No.12118272

I thought 11/22/63 was fun and basic enough

>> No.12118281

>>12118272
and james franco is so dreamy...

>> No.12118351

The End of Eternity, Asimov

>> No.12119451

>>12116965
this