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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 18:35:25 EDT
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> Your mechanism strikes me strongly as Deus Ex Machina, unless you can explain
> why the character should expect to find a gun in the drawer when he opens it
> to shoot his victim, since he has not yet planted the gun at that point,
> nor why he should expect the drawer to be empty when he goes back to plant
> the gun; there is no way for him to know that his action was the cause of
> the gun being there.
> -- Jim Balter ({sdcrdcf!ism780c,ima}!jim)

There is a story about a time/travel parallel universe society.
In this story a group has extracted historical individuals from some timelines
(Khan, Catherine, Ivan, Hitler, etc) as infants and raised them in alternative
universes as laborers and average people.  The scientist who
developed the time/space/universe doorways they use to move around finally
objects to the exploitive behavior of the group but they get control of
the devices to open these doorways and trap him in a particular time line.
To get out of it he decides he will come back to save himself through some
particular doorway and then proceeds to be rescued by himself, which he then
sets out to do.  He actually shows up as 6 of himself together and 6 of a
friend (one of the relocated) also trapped with him.

I can't remember who wrote it or what it was called but it struck me as
very good reading when I read it many years ago.
--j.a.tainter