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Hi, Galspanic. I would like to reply to your question that you thought in your head. Ok?
If I were to write a science fiction novel, I would model it after the status quo. The normal cliché. Several races all co-existing in peace with a superunknown menace raising its head somewhere in a far arm of the galaxy discovered by a long forgotten probe. The Universe would probably include a race frequently alluded to (and therefore frequently foreshadowed) called the “Precursors” or “Those Who Were Before”; you know, that god-like intelligent race that lived billions of years before Earth germinated for the first time. Those are the ones that created the “Jump Gates”. We later discover that they were wiped out by this new found menace.
I’m sure the vast majority of intergalactic fiction stories that span massive scale are likely modeled around this concept. I am not smart enough to do any different, so I’d do that.
Here’s the thing, though. As fantasy was never taken seriously in popular film, and as a result was never successful up until The Lord Of The Rings by Jackson (which *was* taken seriously), I would take the novel seriously, for serious. It’d Tom Clancy all the detail on the ships, the M.O. for planetary invasions, technological schematics, the differences between plasma cannons and mass drivers, and point out the unrealistic and still fictional “laser guns” that are still the toys of children stories in the year 3056. Laser guns? Seriously.
I would write a story about an old man who invents a time machine, and he goes back in time to help out his younger self. The old man appears to his younger self at various key points in his past, and offers kindly and wise advice intended to guide him to happiness and success. The younger self gets annoyed, though, at this old guy always showing up and telling him what to do, and starts to set small traps for him, just to scare the old man away, but eventually, when the old guy just doesn't let up, the younger fellow starts going all out, trying to kill the older guy every time he shows up. The kicker? The younger guy KNOWS that the older guy is an older version of himself, and does his best to kill him anyway.
He's just so annoyed, you know?
Hahaha
Hey, Mr. Pony, have you ever read The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem?
In 'The Seventh Voyage,' Ijon Tichy, an annoying academic, is on vacation by himself in his spaceship when his star drive breaks, leaving him drifting helplessly in space. It takes two people to fix the drive, and luckily he runs into some kind of temporal warp and starts encountering future and past versions of himself.
The problem is that he's such a dick that all he does is get in fights with himself and eat all his food and stuff. The story loops on itself in lots of nice ways where he's always punching himself to get himself back for his yesterday-self punching himself the next day and stuff. I think eventually two of his youngest selves manage to sneak off from the ever-escalating one-man riot and fix the drive.
This is probably my favorite story, and is also what I would write if I could somehow travel to the past and beat Stanislaw to it.
Whoa, no way. I will find a copy of this book immediately.
What would happen if you went back in time to write The Star Diaries is this:
a. You would use paper that was intended to be used for the Declaration of Independence, and return to a giant English colony covering North America.
b. There was no Stanislaw Lem. It was you all along.
c. You accidentally create a divergent timeline in which humans have colonized the entire solar system, dogs are cats, and Wolverine killed the Hulk at their first meeting. Uatu sheds no tears for you, he merely watches.
You know, Archimedes's texts were written over to make prayer books. I wonder if it was a future born-again Archimedes but then, the born-again Archimedes would have probably rejected the concept of time travel, so it was probably just some dick.
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