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Fermi paradox: advanced civilizations discover time travel and generate paradoxes that erase the timelines that led to their creation

• GolfPopper 5y ago
  This is explicitly the background for SF author C.J. Cherry's Morgaine Cycle, although the destruction isn't complete and leaves fragments scattered across space and time. (The reaction of a interstellar human civilization to discovering the fragmented network of space-time gates is "shut it all down and bury it".)
  • EarthLaunch 5y ago
    That sounds fascinating, I'll read that. C.J. Cherryh is one of the authors I somehow didn't pick up as a child, even though I was reading C.S. Friedman and the like. Maybe it was the covers.
  • doliveira 5y ago
    Wow, here's to me thinking I had had an original idea... But that book sounds fascinating, I'll be sure to check it out
    • BizarroLand 5y ago
      I think it was Stephen Baxter who said that if we live in a universe where time travel is possible, then we live in a universe where time travel is not possible, as if it will have happened then everything that can will have happened has already happened.