Time Travel

For a long time, time travel has fascinated me.

Of the DVDs I own, several feature time travel:

  • the Back to the Future trilogy
  • the Bill & Ted series
  • Donnie Darko
  • Primer
  • Terminator 2
  • several episodes of Futurama

I own various fiction books that feature time travel, including:

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time anthology*
  • The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century anthology
  • a few books in the Choose Your Own Adventure-style Time Machine series
  • Continuum role playing game book
  • The Technicolor Time Machine
  • and one of my favorite books, of which I own 3 copies, The Man Who Folded Himself

My car displays a bumper sticker from the Chuck Palahniuk book Rant, which features time travel.

In addition to fiction, I also have a couple of nonfiction physicist-written books:

  • Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
  • Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy

not to mention the card game Chrononauts, and the video games Chrono Trigger and Braid.

Blogs are typically viewed in chronological order, at the (approximate) same time as each entry is created. But I’ve thought it would be interesting to use this time-based medium in connection with the idea of time travel. Reading along each entry daily, and then noticing entries with unusual time stamps. Or new entries appearing with previous/future time stamps, as history is rewritten or apended. Like a book that is being rewritten as you read it.

What are your thoughts on time travel?

*The title of this book, especially considering the subject matter, seems incredibly shortsighted. I think it would be more appropriate to have a book creatively named something like “The Best Time Travel Stories of the 28th Century”.

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