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What if JFK lived?
- Published: 30/01/2012 at 03:11 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
There are two aspects to time travel, travelling to another time; making a change before returning to the starting point. That change leads to other changes and those to other changes still. HG Wells noted this in The Time Machine, Hollywood in its Back to The Future series.
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The genre is in the realm of science fiction, yet a good many authors don't give it that Ray Bradbury feel. To explain the time machine they use a hypnotic dream or a magic door. Readers and viewers are expected to draw on their reserve of suspended disbelief. Novels and films are based on imagination, after all.
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- Writer: Bernard Trink
- Position: Freelance Writer
