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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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"The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber is one of my all time favorite novels. His time travel works on the principle of 'The Law Of Conservation Of Reality." There's only one timeline, and it's possible to change it, but it requires a lot of work.

If you go back and kill baby Hitler, he'll come back to life and no one will remember anything. It takes vast armies fighting thousands of secret battles to change one thing. But when a Big Change hits, look out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've never read any Fritz Leiber, but he's cited as a major influence by Zelazny (and Butcher, Donaldson, Stephenson, etc.)

Maybe today is the day I dig up and start reading Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Good place to start.