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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A Time Traveller

My old friend Roger has published a free ebook: Confessions Of A Time Traveler. [Update 20 May 2010: new file with some typo corrections.] (Link goes directly to a PDF file. If it opens in your browser, you should be able to save it from there to your disk if desired.)

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Update, (Thanks to M Pipolo):
You can download directly from the link by right-clicking (or control-clicking) and selecting Save from the popup menu.
Or, if you're a Mac user, just Option-click any link, and the linked file will begin downloading immediately without having to leave the page.

Update:
 Jan said...
I've read the first ten pages and loved it.
Wish I could write as well as Roger!
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11 comments:

  1. M. Pipolo19 May 2010, 23:35:00

    "(Link goes directly to a PDF file. If it opens in your browser, you should be able to save it from there to your disk if desired.)"

    Or, if you're a Mac user, just Option-click any link, and the linked file will begin downloading immediately without having to leave the page. :)

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  2. Jan19 May 2010, 23:40:00

    I've read the first ten pages and loved it.

    Wish I could write as well as Roger!

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  3. Eolake Stobblehouse19 May 2010, 23:43:00

    Thanks, guys!

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  4. Anonymous20 May 2010, 18:15:00

    That really sucks. For one thing he needs a proofreader, but that wouldn't help much. It reads like standard fan fiction.

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  5. Anonymous20 May 2010, 19:47:00

    Dear Anon

    I recognize you. Your last name is Meres, right?

    =)

    Regards, Roger1

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  6. Anonymous20 May 2010, 19:48:00

    Thank you, Jan

    I appreciate your writing.

    Regards, Roger1

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  7. Pascal [P-04referent]30 May 2010, 14:22:00

    I've read the first 5½ pages and am loving it!

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  8. Anonymous30 May 2010, 14:27:00

    This is SO weird. First time I read it, I really liked it, and actually found it quite talented. But I guess my alternate self is still struggling with her frigidity problems, that once made me so snarky too.
    Until I gave my BF some Irish Viagra.

    Regards, Josie5

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  9. Anonymous30 May 2010, 14:35:00

    Josie5,

    What the fuck do YOU know about anything, you pimple-faced repressed harlot? You're just a stupid troll living in your mom's basement, so STFU. Oh, and you've got flat feet.
    Yeah, I know I'm uncannily well-informed. Try and guess how!

    Regards, Josie9¾

    P.S.: Girl, DO try and put your used tampons in the trash can, will you? Hel-lo? Like, totally GROSS!
    I can't believe I was once just like that... :-(
    Scourgify!

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  10. Pascal [P-04referent]30 May 2010, 14:51:00

    MUONS? Shoot, so THAT's what I've been doing wrong!
    All that time, I was tinkering with Neutrinos. OF COURSE it wouldn't work.

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  11. Pascal [P-04referent]31 May 2010, 01:16:00

    The idea of "suspended time" preservation was already mentioned in René Barjavel's 1943 novel Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Uncautious Traveler). By combining the substance that freezes time and the one that moves you forward or backward, his time-traveler becomes able to visit the future without just fast-forwarding his own life with it (something he did use once, to escape the years of waiting for the war to end).

    Barjavel also officially invented the famous "grandfather paradox". (If you go back in time and kill him before your father was born, you cease to have existed... so WHO kills your grandfather?)

    I've read the book, 20 years ago. It's ALSO got the paradox of going back to prevent the death of somebody... although this freaks the maid something bad!
    "But... good God, sir, you were dead!
    - Yes, well, now I have never been. So get over it, woman, and stop shaking!"     :-D

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