Summary "Non Spoiled"
- Genre
Science Fiction
- Category
Time Travel
- Length
13 Pages
- Paradox/Time Travel Rules
What if the thing that you are researching actually has the power to move you to a place where your existence would be threatened by the things in that new-universe? Negative Entropy and the theory of Time's Arrow.
- Culture Clash
- Scientists caught in a land before time where the dinosaurs may want to eat you at any time.
- Physicists versus Geologists
- Private research vs publically granted research
Summary
This is the story of a human visit to a "Land Before Time". A time before man; a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
First Words
The River was Dead and the lake already dying when the moster had come down the dried up watercourse and turned onto the desolate mud-flats.
Last Words
They were now very deep indeed, as if the great reptile was about to make the final leap upon its desperately fleeing prey.
Favorite Quote
Dr. Henderson smiled, "Thanks to Walt Disney. I can picture the scene very well."
What I learened about Writing
Clarke plays with the mystery of the moment only revealing enough of a picture to capture our interests.
Turnip Tidbits
- served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist
- one of his most important contributions may be his idea that they would be ideal telecommunications relays. He advanced this idea in a paper privately circulated among the core technical members of the BIS in 1945.
- Wrote 2010 a space Odyssey
Where to Find the Story?
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century Edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg
Time's Arrow Arthur C. Clarke (1950)
Travel agencies always have a contingency designs. Imagine when you organize a holiday by yourself & something goes wrong.
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True that travel agencies always need a contingency design. Exactly what would happen if something goes wrong, these characters did not have a very sound contingency plan did they?
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