Re: A YASID that was not Answered

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Ted Nolan wrote:

Robert Woodward wrote:

I believe that I first posted this about 2 decades ago (thus recent was
then):
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"The recent discussions of parallel worlds reminded me of a book (I
think it was a novel rather than a story in an anthology) that I read
sometime in the 60s. This book had time travelers who manipulated time
by changing events in the past (and thus generate a new timeline). The
book also had a character (non-time traveller) who remembered the erased
timelines (IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered
reading because they had been written in the erased timeline and not the
new one). I also remember that the last time manipulation that the time
travelers performed in the book erased a time line where that character
had been murdered. In the new one, he was still alive and he did
remember being killed. Also, it is not Laumer's _The Great Time Machine
Hoax_ (or _Dinosaur Beach_), Brunner's _Times Without Number_, one of
Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories (nor _Corridors of Time_), or
Asimov's _The End of Eternity_."
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      IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered
      reading because they had been written in the erased timeline
      and not the new one.
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Have you considered that you are that character?

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       Strangely enough apart from the books that had not been
written it sounds very like Agency and "peripheral"
       But those are recent.
       I have seen the character who is killed in one timeline and
awakes with some memory in a Western Detective novel and he tatooes
a number on his wrist to keep track as he dies in various timelines.
       Maybe the writer will keep him another series. This one
involves a ranching Sheriff and his pal a Native American who has
a mother? involved in shamanism.
       A quick search shows the Western Detective genre greatly
enlarged. When I am at the SFPL next time I will try to find
that author and see if he has SF series as well.

Getting back to the YASID, for what it's worth, such a (short) story
scenario manifests itself in TLON, UQBAR, ORBIS TERTIUS where Borges
bundles both books of the ephemeral variety with parallel worlds:

    ... Bioy recalled that one of Uqbar's heresiarchs had said that
    mirrors and copulation are abominable because they multiply the
    number of men. When I asked him the source of this pithy dictum,
    he told me it appeared in the article on Uqbar in The Anglo-
    American Cyclopaedia. The villa, which we were renting furnished,
    had a copy of the work. Towards the end of Volume XLVI we found
    an entry on Uppsala and at the beginning of Volume XLVII one on
    Ural-Altaic languages, but nowhere was there a mention of Uqbar.
    ...

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As an aside, BY HIS COCKLE HAT AND STAFF (Wright) is a favorite fable
found in FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS. It has parallel worlds with double-tongued
interdimensional operatives along the lines of TRANSITION (Banks). In
it, two particular worlds are compared and contrasted: a libertine world
along with a Catholic world (a Weltanschauung well-known with Wright).

Danke,

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