Time Travel

[griffinwriter]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

 

[ValleyWalker2]

1803 and try to join the Lewis and Clark expedition.

 

[griffinwriter]

Nice I think I'd like to go to the 1940's.

 

[keith99]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

Back to 2008 so I could prevent this being published.

I found a excerpt and it was painful. Poor prose at best. And a storyline that was old in the 60s.

Here is the link so others can check it out.

http://www.oncewritten.com/Title.php?TID=Out-Of-Time

 

[griffinwriter]

sorry you feel this way I loved the book myself

 

[Kelly]

Back to 2008 so I could prevent this being published.

OUCH! :o

I think I'd like to either go back to Jesus's ministry and join the masses following him around or be an age where I would have been a young man in the 1950's. Today's technology is great but that's about it.

 

[cliffball]

Ok, I've got to defend myself. I've actually re-written parts of Out of Time since 2008, added scenes, fixed dialogue and paragraphs, and that Iuniverse version is pretty out of date. I actually forgot that that excerpt was there, I thought oncewritten.com was no longer working.

I've never bothered to fix the iUniverse version, it would cost me too much. So, I have an updated version through Createspace and all the updates are now available in paperback and ebook.

If you want to read a current sample, go over to Smashwords, since I can't post a link yet, and it's there.

 

[keith99]

Ok, I've got to defend myself. I've actually re-written parts of Out of Time since 2008, added scenes, fixed dialogue and paragraphs, and that Iuniverse version is pretty out of date. I actually forgot that that excerpt was there, I thought oncewritten.com was no longer working.

I've never bothered to fix the iUniverse version, it would cost me too much. So, I have an updated version through Createspace and all the updates are now available in paperback and ebook.

If you want to read a current sample, go over to Smashwords, since I can't post a link yet, and it's there.

That would change things a lot. Early drafts can have huge flaws that remain becaseu one wants to get the basic story written down.

 

[keith99]

OUCH! :o

I think I'd like to either go back to Jesus's ministry and join the masses following him around or be an age where I would have been a young man in the 1950's. Today's technology is great but that's about it.

Do you speak Hebrew or at least Konie Greek?

People always forget that going back in time does not include some magic translator.

 

[keith99]

Is this excerpt current?

Blog of Cliff Ball - Cliff Ball

It is worlds better than the first I found.

Still as a hard Science Fiction reader I find it wanting.

The idea of taking school children (and general population, not the the neices or nephews of a mad scientist) time traveling is absurd. (To be fair that might be the point, a social commentary of our current insanity in some areas).

So I'll let that one pass.

But then a scientist who is concerned with 'contaminating the timeline' who wants to take armed troups into the past to assure his own safety fails badly. And his assertion that disguising their weapons as muskets would solve anything is pityful. They would still kill or injure people. Stupid idea.

Now if it was in the mouth of someone else and the Hawking clone corrected the thought that might work.

As I see it this is popcorn reading at best.

 

[cliffball]

Is this excerpt current?

It is worlds better than the first I found.

Still as a hard Science Fiction reader I find it wanting.

The idea of taking school children (and general population, not the the neices or nephews of a mad scientist) time traveling is absurd. (To be fair that might be the point, a social commentary of our current insanity in some areas).

So I'll let that one pass.

But then a scientist who is concerned with 'contaminating the timeline' who wants to take armed troups into the past to assure his own safety fails badly. And his assertion that disguising their weapons as muskets would solve anything is pityful. They would still kill or injure people. Stupid idea.

Now if it was in the mouth of someone else and the Hawking clone corrected the thought that might work.

As I see it this is popcorn reading at best.

Yeah, that's current. I've written six more novels since Out of Time was published, and I've learned what to do and what not to do in the intervening times. I've also learned I can't please everyone.

I don't write hard sci-fi and never planned to or really wanted to. I just want to write entertaining stories. You'll never find me writing the same kind of technobabble you'll find in Star Trek.

I've had plenty of people who've enjoyed Out of Time (or any of my other novels) and plenty of people who haven't.

 

[Solomon Kane]

Getting back to the OP.
I would go back to the height of the Library of Alaxandria.
From the few remains of the books stored there we know that early mathmatics and astronomy were more advanced then expected.
Imagine what could be discovered if all the material there could be copied and brought to the present?

 

[keith99]

Yeah, that's current. I've written six more novels since Out of Time was published, and I've learned what to do and what not to do in the intervening times. I've also learned I can't please everyone.

I don't write hard sci-fi and never planned to or really wanted to. I just want to write entertaining stories. You'll never find me writing the same kind of technobabble you'll find in Star Trek.

I've had plenty of people who've enjoyed Out of Time (or any of my other novels) and plenty of people who haven't.

I'm hoping that you intend to keep the science either accurate or not center stage and that the tcchnobabble you are talking about is some of the compound greek words used (more in the later series) that really makes no sense and seems to be there just to sound 'scientific'.

 

[NeedGodsHelp]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

All I know is that some of my favorite movies are time travel movies.

 

[taxreliever]

A couple weeks ago I read the best book ever. It was called "Out of Time" by Cliff Ball. The story rotates around the premise of time travel and constantly talks about something called the grandfather paradox. If time travel were real where would you go?

You mean when? I've always said I was born 100 years too late.

Probably the mid to late 1800's.

 

[jaapottery]

Do you speak Hebrew or at least Konie Greek?

People always forget that going back in time does not include some magic translator.

It does if you take the Tardis.

 

[Jasminoodle]

the 1980's deffo. i could buy clothes and cd's there and i could go to concerts... oooh i could go and see my favoutite popstars when they were YOUNG gaahhh!
and my time travel machine would definately be a Delorean

 

[JessicaJ]

if time travel is real i would go to past .the very moment where Jesus was on earth.

 

[Proctor]

Is this excerpt current?

It is worlds better than the first I found.

Still as a hard Science Fiction reader I find it wanting.

The idea of taking school children (and general population, not the the neices or nephews of a mad scientist) time traveling is absurd. (To be fair that might be the point, a social commentary of our current insanity in some areas).

So I'll let that one pass.

But then a scientist who is concerned with 'contaminating the timeline' who wants to take armed troups into the past to assure his own safety fails badly. And his assertion that disguising their weapons as muskets would solve anything is pityful. They would still kill or injure people. Stupid idea.

Now if it was in the mouth of someone else and the Hawking clone corrected the thought that might work.

As I see it this is popcorn reading at best.

If Time travel technology has evolved for use, it is only at the world military levels, under the guidance of the Elite.

And they will use is in stealth.

Also, time travel technology is an off-shoot of quantum physics - the stuff of Fermi Lab type particle accelerators and the like.

General public cannot be allowed to go anywhere they please and raise havoc on the Timeline. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

And if the dangerous rabid minded individuals on the globe get this technology, all hell will break loose.

 

[keith99]

If Time travel technology has evolved for use, it is only at the world military levels, under the guidance of the Elite.

And they will use is in stealth.

Also, time travel technology is an off-shoot of quantum physics - the stuff of Fermi Lab type particle accelerators and the like.

General public cannot be allowed to go anywhere they please and raise havoc on the Timeline. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

And if the dangerous rabid minded individuals on the globe get this technology, all hell will break loose.

Your post reminded me of a story related to time travel. Not exactly time travel as people do not actually go into the past, they just can view it.

"The Dead Past" by Asimov.

A very distrubing story.