Post by rorschalk on Mar 29, 2024 18:50:25 GMT
Good news is quick turn around on this one...here's the bad news...
although it's given in quite an erudite and enjoyable fashion no?...
Enjoy!
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Post by rockefeller on 4 hours ago
"Everyone says time travel is a troupe..."
Actually I've never heard anyone say that till now. Some do say it's a trope, however. Which just goes to show that even cover letters need to be edited.
As do submissions, of course.
"A group of young men sat in a circle, drinking beer; they’re coats wrapped tightly around them to fend off the cold spring wind.
their coats
"Andy stuck his discovery in the pocket of his hoodie..."
Something "about the size of a basketball"?
Didn't really get into this one. Time travel, like fantasy, is a tough sell for me. Too rife with paradoxes and absurdities. If there existed a future that could eventually be traveled back from, where is everybody? A form of the Fermi paradox, no? Time would become meaningless, the past endlessly rewritten. Feeling a solipsist vibe now. And sticking a couple gently retarded (and I don't mean "the R word" here in the medically diagnostic, extra chromosome sense, but more in the sense that it got my grandson suspended from school for a day for using as an adjective for an idea) characters whose serendipitous discovery of this alien technology's first inspiration was to send sandwiches back. I wouldn't call this science fiction at all really, since there's no nod to science, as in to how this basketball sized thing works, how it distinguishes your shoes from the floor you're standing on. Or even what time is (a direction in space?). And... if one could travel backwards into the past, the past is then changed, and so also the future from whence one came. Another universe entirely? This trope has been pretty thoroughly traversed. Okay, okay, I get that this is really more a humor piece. Maybe that's what didn't really work for me. Afraid I'm going to beam it into the Porthole, but which might contain a Tipler cylinder whereby it might be mathematically transported billions of years into the past and billions of lightyears away into some causally disconnected region of the universe where it will be properly appreciated by another, hopefully more intelligent, being.
although it's given in quite an erudite and enjoyable fashion no?...
Enjoy!
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Post by rockefeller on 4 hours ago
"Everyone says time travel is a troupe..."
Actually I've never heard anyone say that till now. Some do say it's a trope, however. Which just goes to show that even cover letters need to be edited.
As do submissions, of course.
"A group of young men sat in a circle, drinking beer; they’re coats wrapped tightly around them to fend off the cold spring wind.
their coats
"Andy stuck his discovery in the pocket of his hoodie..."
Something "about the size of a basketball"?
Didn't really get into this one. Time travel, like fantasy, is a tough sell for me. Too rife with paradoxes and absurdities. If there existed a future that could eventually be traveled back from, where is everybody? A form of the Fermi paradox, no? Time would become meaningless, the past endlessly rewritten. Feeling a solipsist vibe now. And sticking a couple gently retarded (and I don't mean "the R word" here in the medically diagnostic, extra chromosome sense, but more in the sense that it got my grandson suspended from school for a day for using as an adjective for an idea) characters whose serendipitous discovery of this alien technology's first inspiration was to send sandwiches back. I wouldn't call this science fiction at all really, since there's no nod to science, as in to how this basketball sized thing works, how it distinguishes your shoes from the floor you're standing on. Or even what time is (a direction in space?). And... if one could travel backwards into the past, the past is then changed, and so also the future from whence one came. Another universe entirely? This trope has been pretty thoroughly traversed. Okay, okay, I get that this is really more a humor piece. Maybe that's what didn't really work for me. Afraid I'm going to beam it into the Porthole, but which might contain a Tipler cylinder whereby it might be mathematically transported billions of years into the past and billions of lightyears away into some causally disconnected region of the universe where it will be properly appreciated by another, hopefully more intelligent, being.