The thing I am most interested in is time travel. I would be real interested in connecting with people on mastodon that have same interests 👌🏾
I tried writing a book last year but lost interest. Need more inspiration 🙏🏿 #TimeTravelAuthors
@Jaden3 if you like retro rpg turn based games you should play Chrono Trigger. It's all about time traveling
One of my favourite video games of all time.
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I would suggest The Time Traveler's Almanac, a (huge!) short story anthology about time travel, collected by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (relatively easy to find as well).
There's also Time Travel: A History, the book by @JamesGleick, about the evolution of the idea.
@Jaden3 I enjoyed the “Time Patrol” stories by Poul Anderson, including the novel, “Shield of Time.” I’m not sure if this is where I first heard the idea of time-like vs. light-like vs. space-like trajectories, but if you are going to go #FTL then you need to understand the causal implications of messing with world lines!
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Just don't give up,
It doesn't matter what you write, just write, I think I've said before, I have kept a journal for most of my adult life!
That's twice your lifetime 😂
It's rubbish, but if you want to be a 'writer' you have to write 🥰
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You damned right,
Try doing what you want to before life and shit catches up with you!
Cos believe me it will!
You blink too many times and you're olldd !!!!
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I think sci-fi should also talk about the science of the fiction. Slaughterhouse Five is pretty matter-of-fact about it. Even the Tralfamadorians don't explore how it works. It just is.
For time travel stories, I'd also recommend Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" along with his novel "Timequake."
I learned a lot about myself while reading Vonnegut - including what a "humanist" was - but I want to caution against reading too many of his books in a row. They can be very sad, in a self-deprecating manner.
@Jaden3 I’m a short story guy. Try Ann Vandermeer’s The Time Traveler’s Almanac and Mike Ashley’s The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF for some great stories.
@Jaden3 other recommendations could be: the Timecop series, by Dan Parkinson; The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger; and Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis. These are suggestions by my partner, btw, I have only read the one mentioned earlier.
@Jaden3 I love #TimeTravelAuthors and stories, Andria often think about the science that might be involved. Here are some illustrations I’ve collected to help me understand what is going on in these stories
@Jaden3 Here is another diagram that I find helpful in understanding #TimeTravel re the speed of light in. It depicts #Spacetime intervals. A cone is positioned on 3D axes. The vertical axis is time, two (for simplicity) horizontal axes are space. The narrowest point of the cone is at the origin; the here and now. #WorldLines inside the cone are called time-like. Outside the cone world lines are space-like. Time travel involves going from time-like to space-like world-lines.
@Jaden3#TimeTravel is related to faster-than-light #FTL travel from inside to outside the spacetime interval light cone. It makes be dizzy trying to interpret multiple world lines using this chart 👆🏼, but it can be done. Have fun!
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