Prisoners of Gravity: Time Travel (Part 1 of 3)
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- From the episode guide:
Airdate: December 3, 1992
Commander Rick examines the use of time travel in science fiction, with SF authors Connie Willis (discussing her latest novel, Doomsday Book), L. Sprague de Camp (Lest Darkness Fall), Michael Moorcock (Behold the Man), Gregory Benford (Timescape), John Gribbin ("Don't Look Back"), Robert Silverberg (co-author with Isaac Asimov of The Ugly Little Boy), Spider Robinson (Time Travelers Strictly Cash), Geoffrey A. Landis ("Ripples in the Dirac Sea") and Joe Haldeman ("The Hemingway Hoax").
I love the footage of L. Sprague de Camp!
Used to watch this show religiously every Sunday evening in the early 90's when I collected comics.
Thanks so much for these programs! Had never heard of it until I discovered an episode on You Tube. Comics, authors, artists, fiction in all aspects. Loved these all my life & being pretty much house bound now the show is bringing all kinds of entertainment and information. :) Also memories of attending cons & meeting a few of the interview subjects back in the day. God bless. Can't thank you enough.
This is great!! I'm currently trying to hammer out a short story concerning time travel and this is a cool bit of research. Thanks for uploading!
I never had the faintest inkling this series existed. That's what's great about surfing CZcams!
Thank you, once again, for bringing these back to the world, Teddog!
This has probably been asked before, but who does the art in the comic for the opening credits?
Wow! Another Moorcock interview! Either I don't remember this one or I didn't see it when it first aired on my local PBS station! Interesting how it never hit him that in a world where wars have been fought based on conflicting belief systems and he grew up in one where 6M innocents were killed that he wouldn't hit a raw nerve somewhere! I can't even talk about this book without reading chapter & verse how blasphemous the concept is! I guess he hung out with more open minded folks than I have!
I hated _Behold the Man_, and not for any weird religious reasons. I just found Karl Glogauer completely unsympathetic, megalomanaical, and whiny, which I guess is fine for what Moorcock was trying to do, but it's barely science fiction. The time machine is only vaguely dealt with over the course of three pages (and even Glogauer's use of it is glossed over severely: his girlfriend left him, then a week later he went to Palestine and traveled back in time in one sentence), and the most science-fiction-y part of the book is page 1.
Lawrence Person's "Crucifixion Variations" is a much better timey-wimey treatment of Jesus, IMO.
I must disagree.
The most scientifically interesting part isn't the actual time travel but the bootstrap paradox caused by it.
Karl goes back in time to meet someone who he's read about only to discover that person doesn't exist, so he becomes that person, but he would never have done that if he hadn't read about him.
So he read retellings of things he himself had said that were themselves retellings of what he'd read.
So who wrote the sermon on the mount?
Where the hell did it actually come from?
I always thought it was an interesting idea.
I thought it was an interesting concept in the vein of the Christ myth hypothesis, but badly executed. Too choppy; too many flashbacks and interludes that are only one sentence long. Yes it is blasphemous, but I can appreciate others people's perspectives.