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Jul. 27th, 2004 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerI've enjoyed the Company novels of Kage Baker for a few years. She puts a neat spin on immortality and time travel. Immortality is achieved by turning people into cyborgs, but it only works on young children with a certain skull shape - so it's worthless for wealthy adults. Time travel is expensive, and you can't change recorded history.
How do you get around this? Go back in time, create immortals, and let them do your work for you. See, you can change non-recorded history; you can't change who won the lottery on a given day, but you can, say, put him under a contract that gives his winnings over to you.
It's more complicated than that, but you'll have to go read the novels for more.
Anyway, Ms. Baker recently posted a short story in that universe. I rather like it; but I've always liked Vermeer.
What I'm reading: Gordon R. Dickson, The Right to Arm Bears
How do you get around this? Go back in time, create immortals, and let them do your work for you. See, you can change non-recorded history; you can't change who won the lottery on a given day, but you can, say, put him under a contract that gives his winnings over to you.
It's more complicated than that, but you'll have to go read the novels for more.
Anyway, Ms. Baker recently posted a short story in that universe. I rather like it; but I've always liked Vermeer.
What I'm reading: Gordon R. Dickson, The Right to Arm Bears
