Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:32:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
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On 09/06/2025 19.06, Tony Nance wrote:
On 6/9/25 12:45 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
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No rules, no bureaucracy, just some randos messing around with the
past, present, and future.
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https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-time-travel-on-a-limited-scale/
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Interesting! I haven't read any of the five. I had not seen that particular cover of the Gerrold, either - sheesh.
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When I saw that cover in James' post, I thought that it was a misplaced
picture of Alex DeLarge. Does it relate to the story in any way? I haven't
read _Fondlded_ since 1997, so my detailed memory is lacking.
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The Time Machine - Wells
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This is the second classic Wells you've recently mentioned (the other one
was _The War of the Worlds_), neither of which I've read. (I have seen the
George Pal interpretations of both, of course.) I need to fix this.
Yes. You do.
Although Pal's /War of the Worlds/ is well-done, it has a lot of
high-level strategic stuff. The book is much closer to the ground. In
fact, the 2005 version actually captures the spirit of the book much
better: one man's desperate trip across an invaded landscape to find
the one he loves during the route of mankind. OK, the goal in the 2005
version is more to dump the kids off on the wife so he doesn't have to
bother with them any more. But the basic story is the same. With Pal,
that story is only a part of the film. Note that I say nothing about
the Martian machines: Pal's are very modern, the 2005 version's are
more like the book, but both work in the story just fine.
Pal's version of /The Time Machine/ is -- awful. No, seriously, read
the book and forget the film, if you can. (The main problem is that it
is obsessed with Nuclear War which, of course, the book knows nothing
of.)
-- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,Who evil spoke of everyone but God,Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
(ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
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