The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction

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The story is beautiful, like "when you care, when you love" by Theodore Sturgeon, I really would like to find the name of the author or the story if you can help me.

A strong anti-racist, anti-slavery, pro-education, feminist story, with a battle of wits towards the end that makes it more fun than my preachy-sounding description. Survival: terrifying in its spare approach to unspooling a conventional thriller scenario (a disabled spacecraft is running out of food and on the edge of social collapse - then they find out the one female passenger is pregnant)This collection, originally published in 1956, brings together ten stories, ranging from comedy to horror, with touches of romance and occasionally social commentary built in. There’s no real common theme – this is a collection where each story is individual rather than being part of a greater whole. But most of the stories are more than strong enough to stand alone and even the weaker ones are well worth reading. Wyndham is a great storyteller and the variety in this book allows him to show off his impressive versatility. Flores is right; it's a great story. In fact, all of these are worth reading. Really neat speculations about how fantastic events can affect humans and humanity... like all the best of SF should be. A time-travel rom-com which, despite the foreword, has a spot of adventure and peril. The title refers to the sort of anomaly that can arise if users of history-machines do anything more than observe. The risks of killing one’s grandfather or becoming one’s own progenitrix are mentioned. This is The Butterfly Effect, an idea generally credited to Bradbuy’s Sound of Thunder from 1952 (see my review HERE), the year before this story was first published.

Find sources: "The Seeds of Time"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Cecilia Flores: About 30 years ago I read a great story about a girl who travels from future to meet her grand grand grand father. She receives a letter from him when she is 18 years old (or something like that) and in this letter he declare his love to her, so she travels to the past to meet him. I think I remember that he is the narrator of the story, and it begins when he sees her in the street. He think that she has 2 things different from people around her: her shoes and her hair (and both details are explained after by her). Here's another take on time travel. This story works around the idea of different futures arising from different outcomes to decisions. Can true love sort things out when fates goes horribly pear shaped? This was written pre-war, but lightly edited afterwards. It’s definitely an adventure, but there are no “galactic gangsters”. The basic plot is obvious from the off, but it’s an interesting example of how an insular perspective (life, experience, body) skews objectivity and ability to interpret unfamiliar situations.Survival” is a brutal story that I was not expecting. Precision machined deconstruction of humanity. “Dumb Martian” is also a brutal little piece of revenge, and much like “Survival” gives us another woman who will not be cowed. “Wild Flower” is poetic and melancholy. What I look for in sci-fi is interesting ideas (language, character development, and even plot are secondary). Wyndham delivers. If you travel time in your craft, you need to be sure you have fuel for the return trip, but what are the possible consequences if it stays behind?