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Robert heinlein the rolling stones5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, although Bob had locked himself alone in his room, someone says, “Don’t bother with it. Bob does not care much at this point whether his thesis (that time travel is impossible) is valid he is desperate for sleep and just wants to get it done and typed up by the deadline the next day to become an academic, since he thinks academia beats working for a living. Under the title "The Time Gate", it was also included in a 1958 Crest paperback anthology, Race to the Stars.īob Wilson locks himself in his room to finish his graduate thesis on a mathematical aspect of metaphysics, using the concept of time travel as a case in point. "By His Bootstraps" was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection The Menace From Earth, and in several subsequent anthologies, and is now available in at least two audio editions. The story was published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald the same issue has " Common Sense" under Heinlein's name. It plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. " By His Bootstraps" is a 20,000 word science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. 1941 science fiction novella by Robert A. ![]()
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