godwin@UCI-ICSE.ARPA (10/16/85)
From: Dave Godwin <godwin@uci-icse.ARPA> One of my favorite time travel type books is Thrice Upon a Time, by James Hogan. There is no actual movement of people or objects in this story, just data transmission. The science is solid, reminding me rather of Clarke, and the story itself is quite well done. I really can't tell much about the book without a spoiler. My other favorite time travel story is The Technicolor Time Machine, by Harry Harrison (of Stainless Steel Rat fame). In this bizarre epic, a movie company ( Stupendpous Pictures ?? ) uses a newly devised time machine to go back to the age of the Vikings to film ( effectively over night ) a masterwork that will hopefully save the company. Really funny stuff. Several occasions of people running into themselves at the same point in time. I remember a scene where the location producer gets annoyed at another version of himself, and runs off yelling "I thinks I can do that to me, do I ?! Hah, I'll show me !!" Dave