[Talk] Heinlein, Bradbury, old age

[Nick Simicich]

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 09:56, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> In my doddering old age I've forgotten the name of a story, and the author, but I
> remember the plot:
> 
> Inventor creates a time machine. He uses it to do tricks and transport little
> objects. Then he finds out that each time he does this, he's destroying a star
> system and probably billions of people.

I can tell you that this is not a Heinlein story - I've read all of
Heinlein and I don't remember  his time machine stories including one
with this plot. Does not sound like his style, anyway. His style was
more like, "yes, if someone was their own grandpa, the time line is
looped and you just better get over it and have sex with grandma, or
things really will be screwed up". (Time Enough for Love, All You
Zombies, The Number of The Beast, By His Bootstraps).

http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in5379/rbt/24thunder/sound_thunder.htm is a plot
of Bradbury's classic time travel story - (spoilers) the "great white
hunter" contracts to shoot a T-Rex - and it has to be one that would
have died at the time that they shoot it anyway - and they are on a
special path to limit their environmental contact, but the hunter
accidentally kills an extra butterfly causing the Nazis to win the
Second World War.


> I read this story maybe twenty years ago but someone just told me they saw it
> recently on Stargate...  Anyone remember the author/title?

I'm blind copying this reply to another mailing list where a response
might be forthcoming-if one is, I'll forward it back here.
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