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Greg T here ... My comments keep getting either eaten or "held by blog owner for approval" & I have no idea why ... no links, in them recently for instance .... Oh & I prefigured Andreas @ 151... the...
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Greg T here .... @ 98 “…societies in which there was an actual Golden Age” Well, late-classical Athens qualified, in terms of life expectancy & general health, which is one reason why it was so admired….. @ 104 Define “growth”...
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Greg T here: Back to the original subject, assuming that it IS “about us”. What real threats do we face, & what can be done. Probably more importantly, who will be responsible for the actions that will “save” or ameliorate...
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Gunmar @ 78 Preservation is also part of continuity – which is why it is felt to be & indeed is, important. @ 79 “…London in the 1880s, where infant mortality had FALLEN to only around 180-200 per 1000” Yes...
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TYPO That should be "1830" for the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester, obviously! Soon shall thy arm, Unconquer'd STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the...
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Greg here ... Tylenol as used in "TCP" - had it in the house for years, with several generations of fluffies - until we found out it was deadly. Threw it out immediately, fortunately without losing any cats. Didn't know...
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Charlie @ 67 Thanks for that info - I was obviously steaming in circles, there ... However, that is really wierd. I take Diclofenac daily for my gout - keeps it well under control & pain-free) Next question, is diclofenac...
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Greg T here again, without the cat, this time …… Sorry about the broken URL – it looked OK in “preview” ….. @56 & Charlie @ 57 Indeed – Passenger Pigeons? I’m not so sure, there are several specimens left,...
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Greg T here – ignore the “G” log-in … "the idea that it's all about us" & so-called “green” issues … well, now! Unfortunately @ 4 … “…enabling right-wingers to portray greens as hair-shirt-wearing hippies” is all too often, correct,...
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Greg T here - ignore the Google crap! I trust the signing went well? And (re other messages) that the rest of the weekend is not too stressful - at least you know, in advance, that your mother is in...
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tp 1024 @ 77 But I DO NOT HAVE A BLOG - at all .... So how is your explanation supposed to work? Err, um.........
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Ah, it did label me as something alphameric, rich & strange, though pearls are not my eyes, nor are my bones of coral made. Greg T....
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Gargle lets me in .... just NO IDEA what my sig wil look like. Moveable type gave me a "wrong password" Wordpress didn't recognise me, which is wrong (I regularly read/comment on a WP blog) I can't remember if I...

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paws4thot commented on Time tourism
Further on Octavia Butler - Growing older (look, growing "up" is not compulsory) near Glasgow in the 1970s and 80s, I honestly don't remember her books in the local SF shops. Of course, that may be at least partly down to that being when I was reading through all the "classic authors" and my Fantasy period....
tangurena commented on Time tourism
Accuracy in historical fiction is hard. Lindsey Davis tries very hard with her Falco series (he's a private investigator in Rome). Not SF at all. LD: I take pains with historical detail because otherwise, what's the point? But people get very pompous about all this. The Falco books were always intended to be light-hearted, almost spoofs. It's a joke to take a Forties-style gumshoe and put him two thousand years ago. And if I were to be really accurate linguistically I'd be writing in Latin – not even classical Latin but some street argot that we don't actually know. He...
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What about E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet? That's a mixed group of Edwardian boys and girls who go time-traveling by means of a magic ankh. They go back to ancient Egypt and forward to a somewhat dystopian utopia. CS Lewis's The Magician's Nephew has the same deal but with world hopping via magic rings, going to a mostly dead world then a world at its birth. Then Mary Norton's The Magic Bedknob and Bonfires and Broomsticks--which Disney put together for Bedknobs and Broomsticks--has in the second book time travel back to the Great Fire of London. And while...
Bellinghman commented on Time tourism
Or to quote Charlie in the following article to this: It's also noteworthy that the "men time-travel; women stay at home" paradigm doesn't apply in childrens' literature, if the time traveler is a child. - perhaps that may be widened to say if any of the time travellers are children....
austern commented on Time tourism
The funny thing: I can think of lots of instances of time travel stories, some of which may be counterexamples to the original post (one of my favorite time travel stories that has a female time traveler and that's very specifically about mid-20th century gender roles, for example, is Ellen Klages's "Time Gypsy"), but I'm not actually sure I can think of any examples of time tourism. The title of this post feels perfectly reasonable, and it feels like it ought to be a really common trope, I'm just having trouble thinking of concrete examples. Well, not in grownup fiction,...

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