Space travel stories span a continuum from hard science to feels. Alien contact stories span a continuum from hard science to feels. Time travel stories...are strongly bimodal. >>>
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3/ John C Wright <removes helmet> IS NO MANhttps://twitter.com/VarangianSkull/status/1133465214941372420 …
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Normally, yes. However, I would argue there is at least one exception: John C. Wright's City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis. It is both obsessive about paradox and self-referentiality AND obsessed with the experiential. Both. At once. It's an odd book.
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Where would you class The Stars my Destination? While it definitely falls into the experiential camp, I don't think I would call it obsessed.
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What about the (early) Terminator movies? If true, probably because there are two main popular time-travel plots: Intricate (often heist-style) plot where everything has to go like clockwork (HAr HAr) to avoid screwing up and the pleasure is in seeing it executed flawlessly.
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and the more basic "X is transported to Y time, and learns valuable lessons/discovers their true self" wherein the mechanics don't matter, the author wanted to use anachronisms to make a point. To make time travel 'work' you either have to handwave it entirely or be METICULOUS.
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I think that's a constraint of the format. Not much other SF involves changing the story's starting point (or not). If all SF was written as "same guy mindwiped/new clone", it'd be different. But not all SF is Moorcock or Null-A.
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