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Another favorite Ted Chiang short story: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate". To me, it's one of the few stories that manage to incorporate time travel and
by quanticle 10y ago
Another favorite Ted Chiang short story: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate". To me, it's one of the few stories that manage to incorporate time travel and still have it be meaningful while avoiding paradoxes.
- bangonkeyboard 10y agoWhat's great is that it's a straight sci-fi story that could be dropped into the Zipes adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights and none would be the wiser.
- da-bacon 10y agoDefinitely. It's actually one of those stories that I wouldn't be surprised if it inspires some new ideas for those who try to do serious research on time travel (or the polite way to say time travel among physicists: closed timelike curves.)
- firegrind 10y agoThere's a splendid audio version at http://www.uvulaaudio.com/merchant.html http://www.uvulaaudio.com/merchant.html
- rimantas 10y agoThe first book about time travel I read nailed it — The Technicolor Time Machine.