Avoiding Paradoxes in Multiverse Time Travel Narratives

Science Fiction 2 (1) (2017)
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The aim of this paper is to help authors construct coherent time-travel narratives by establishing five features of multiverse time travel. To this end, multiverse time travel will be contrasted to fixed-universe time travel, and both versions related to various cases - where each case is designed to illustrate a key feature of multiverse time travel.

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