Hatrack River Forum: IGMS #23-- Into the West, Eric James Stone

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

Link to the write up.

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I had recently read The Elegant Universe, a non-fiction book about string theory, which talked about the concept of curled dimensions, and I wondered what would happen if our time dimension somehow got mixed up with a space dimension. From all that I got the idea of west being the future, and a train that had to keep going west.

Posted by Sala (Member # 8980) on :

This was my favorite story in this issue. I especially liked the <surprising to me> ending.

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

[Smile]

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I was expecting some sort of sacrifice-- that's just how Eric rolls.

I did NOT expect them to pull him out of the time-stop. I really liked the idea of having a huge, floating community that is always moving west.

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