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Showing posts with label parallel realities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parallel realities. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Police Operation - review
This is another story by H. Beam Piper.
This one handles the ParaTime concept (e.g. multiple quantum realities) in a single narrative that takes place in our world.
The raw story is a simple one and would have minimal repercussions had the story worked out differently but it does a great job of setting the stage for many aspects of how ParaTime works and how the people from the 1sr Level handle their incursions.
The science is a bit off in this one, especially in how extra-terrestrail life is touched upon but that, again, could be due to divergent forks in reality which our reality is not a part of.
This was the longest of the stories included in the set of stories I read, but it was well worth the read.
In fact, I think the main character, and the ParaTime Police, would be a good mine for Hollywood to adapt into film.
Of course, I have no faith that they would do it correctly - so the result would likely be garbage,
This one handles the ParaTime concept (e.g. multiple quantum realities) in a single narrative that takes place in our world.
The raw story is a simple one and would have minimal repercussions had the story worked out differently but it does a great job of setting the stage for many aspects of how ParaTime works and how the people from the 1sr Level handle their incursions.
The science is a bit off in this one, especially in how extra-terrestrail life is touched upon but that, again, could be due to divergent forks in reality which our reality is not a part of.
This was the longest of the stories included in the set of stories I read, but it was well worth the read.
In fact, I think the main character, and the ParaTime Police, would be a good mine for Hollywood to adapt into film.
Of course, I have no faith that they would do it correctly - so the result would likely be garbage,
Friday, April 4, 2014
Flight from the Future - review
H. Beam Piper seems fascinated with time and multiple realities.
This particular story cleanly handles the Grandfather Paradox in a way that wasn't particularly obvious to me while reading the story.
This, like the other works of Piper, is worth the read.
This particular story cleanly handles the Grandfather Paradox in a way that wasn't particularly obvious to me while reading the story.
This, like the other works of Piper, is worth the read.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper - Review
Piper generated several linked story sets, one of which is the "paratime" set. Paratime is, essentially, a multiverse and there is a prime civilization that has figured out how to slide between realities and governs all of the rights to mine, etc all of the various realities in a variety of ways.
Temple Trouble deals with an isolated incident in which a troublesome world is only marginally controllable by religion and the paratime people from the prime world who are trying to exploit the world for resources that the world is not using and probably never will due to the divergences in its sociological development.
This is one of several stories I have encountered in which religion is portrayed solely as a means to control the population. It does pose some interesting questions, one of which it does very overtly toward the end.
This story, while familiar in a lot of ways and somewhat predictable (but it might not have been when it was written and published) is still a worthwhile read and I was most entertained as I "read" it in the car.
Temple Trouble deals with an isolated incident in which a troublesome world is only marginally controllable by religion and the paratime people from the prime world who are trying to exploit the world for resources that the world is not using and probably never will due to the divergences in its sociological development.
This is one of several stories I have encountered in which religion is portrayed solely as a means to control the population. It does pose some interesting questions, one of which it does very overtly toward the end.
This story, while familiar in a lot of ways and somewhat predictable (but it might not have been when it was written and published) is still a worthwhile read and I was most entertained as I "read" it in the car.
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