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Old 12-16-2004, 06:24 PM   #14
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Default Re: Here's something I don't get about Coventry...

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Originally Posted by Pesterfield
I'd be interested in an alternate Infinity that didn't try to discourage parachronics, or even tried to actively promote its discovery. They should be seeking out worlds and trying to form alliances and trade networks instead of surpressing things.
That was the setup in John Barnes' Timeline Wars trilogy (Patton's Spaceship, Washington's Dirigible, Caesar's Bicycle). As you might guess from the titles, in that series the good guys actively tried to accelerate each line's technical development.
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