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Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien

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    September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

    Work published in 2008 from Israel claims detection of element #122.  If true the implications are stunning.  The only possible method of generating element 122 is by artificial nucleosynthesis, a technical feat beyond the capability of modern day humans.
    While subsequent study may have disproven the theory this opens up a new method of proving the [...]

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    Joe Haldeman’s Accidental Time Machine

    May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

    Just finished listening to Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine” from Audible.

    As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when [...]

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    Six word Scifi stories

    May 13th, 2009 · No Comments

    Six word scifi stories are excellent !
    Mine says:
    Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling !

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    Jesus in Science Fiction

    January 4th, 2009 · No Comments

    io9 asks “Can Jesus Become Your New SF Hero?”
    Readers of this blog already know the answer:   YES !
    If any of you are allowed to post comments on io9 I would appreciate a plug.  io9 will not even respond to my requests to be given permission to add comments.
    The io9 post is about a SciFi [...]

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    Time Travel Websites

    October 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

    There are a lot of other websites out there which offer a great sample of scifi. The most popular according to Google are SF Site, Scifi.com. An useful one is at www.magicdragon.com with the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide. The interesting thing is that this site has not been updated in 4 [...]

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    Time Travel – Galilee 4

    July 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments

    All Chapters in the Galilee Stories
    The next morning Frank opened my bandage and studied the cut. Using his goggles to magnify the image he gasped “What are those?” He made a short movie then shot it to my wire. I saw hundreds of nearly invisible dots, moving in and out of [...]

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    Tags: Fiction · Time Travel

    Time Travel – Galilee 3

    July 13th, 2008 · 12 Comments

    All chapters in the Galilee Stories
    As I walked out from town a few days later I smiled. It amazed me that such a simple person could become the most important leader in human history. We had only spoken for a few hours but I felt that I had seen into his heart. [...]

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    Time Travel – Galilee 2

    July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

    All chapters in the Galilee Stories
    Nazareth. What am I doing here? I wanted to stay out of sight in the backwaters, now I’m at the center of the universe. There are 2 main trade routes in this world: Baghdad to Rome and Cairo to Damascus. Those 2 paths intersect [...]

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    The Best Time Travel Movies

    June 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments

    A recent post on TopTenz offered the Top 10 time travel movies. With all due respect it’s not clear that “time travel” was an important concept in this list. For example, in the Terminator movies there is a single time travel event at the very beginning of the movie and then nothing more. [...]

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    Self-Aware Blog

    June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

    I’m worried my blog is on the verge of achieving sentience. I’ve noticed that some of my time travel stories have achieved a life of their own. What would it mean for a blog to be self-aware? Would it take comments personally? Would it seize control of the entire Internet and [...]

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