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Thread #171194 Message #4140287
Posted By: robomatic
26-Apr-22 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sci-Fi and/or fantasy authors
Subject: RE: BS: Sci-Fi and/or fantasy authors
The genesis of the thread re: "I'm My Own Grandpa" and the reference to "All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein is a great remembrance of a truly seminal short story about sex, time, and time-travel. It's the kind of story a young man writes during a brilliant evening, similar to what happened with Isaac Asimov the evening he wrote "Nightfall". or Arthur C. Clarke with "The Ten Billion Names of God".
"All You Zombies " is brilliantly interwoven, both sad and hilarious and unrestrained, especially since it was written in the 50s.
And it also has a listing of The Bylaws of Time, among them are:
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Billion. Ancestors are Just People It is Earlier When You Think