Time Travel in Fiction PDF
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Published on 2011-06 by Books LLC, Wiki Series
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Prime Directive, Urashima Tar, Predestination paradoxes in popular culture, List of time travel science fiction, Star Trek, Samurai Jack, Dr. Octagonecologyst, Time loop, List of games containing time travel, Emmett Brown, Trunks, Chris Halliwell, Mikuru Asahina, Continuum, Temporal Cold War, Marty McFly, Chrononauts, Time Breakers, Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Newspaper from the future, Clock Suckers, Alternative future, The Message, Chronodynamics, Anno 7603, Berkeley Square. Excerpt: A predestination paradox is a common literary device employed in many fictional and mythological works, dealing with various circumstances and paradoxes that can logically arise from time travel. While technically not a predestination paradox, self-fulfilling prophecy is a related variant which predates the use of time travel as a plot device. Two of the earliest and most famous examples are the ancient Indian story of Krishna in the epic Mahabharata, and the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus. In the story of Krishna in the epic Mahabharata, king Kamsa, afraid of a prophecy that predicted his death at the hands of his sister Devaki's son, had her cast into prison where he planned to kill all of her children at birth. After her first six children had been killed, Devaki gave birth to Krishna. As his life was in danger, he was smuggled out to be raised by his foster parents Yasoda and Nanda in the Gokul village. As a young man, Krishna returned to his kingdom to overthrow his uncle, and Kamsa was eventually killed by his nephew Krishna. It was Kamsa's attempts to prevent the prophecy that led to it coming true. A similar but less complex story is found in the Greek myth of Zeus overthrowing Cronus. In the legend of Oedipus, it is prophesied that the baby Oedipus will one day kill ...
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