In a message dated 9/21/00 1:23:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
retroman@turbont.net writes:
<< A good smaller scale treatment of this is Barnes' _Kaleidoscope Century_,
where
the KGB creates a singularity at the Earth/Sun L3 point (opposite the sun
from
us) in 1980 or so, and a KGB agent has gone through thousands of CTC
iterations,
tweaking the 21st century, and dragging along her sidekick, who is the main
character, a rather memory befuddled individual. >>
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Steve Barnes (is it Steve Barnes?) of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle fame is
a very good writer and very libertarian. An earlier work was written by
Engineer/SciFi-er James Hogan who postulated a Universe where the Great
Depression never occured, and therefore nazi germany never happended, thus
the Soviet Union finally collpased under Stalin's mass murders and
industrial-agricultural ineptness decades earlier then 1990. The thrust of
book is that some of the brains that would have become engineers or
physicists never perished on the Russian front or went up the smokestacks of
Aushwitz, so there was an enormous scientific leap forward, including
time-travel technology The baddies in the book, from the tiny National
Socialist Partei, and some badboy industrialists steal the Time McGuffin
and...you get the idea. I like Closed Timelike paths theory, because it fits
pretty much of what we see the universe behaving. However there is always the
other 90% of reality of what we cannot as yet detect.
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