YASID: Man Stranded In Another Dimension
Tim Bruening
dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
David DeLaney
... I know the story, but CANNOT think of the title/author. It does not seem
to be "The Long Way Home" or "The Long Walk Home" but it's SOMETHING close
to that. He's also audible to them for each split second he appears, and
the cataclysm was caused because when he was nearly back to his start something
tripped him, so he arrived back at the origin of the time-travel experiment
fallen over ... which apparently put him inside some other solid matter. Boom!
One project over the years of his appearance strung together the whooshing
noise that came with him on each appearance, and finally figured out the
'backward' part.
Dave
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Bill Snyder
DeLaney) wrote:
>Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
>>dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
>>apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
>>cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
>>Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
>>backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
>
>... I know the story, but CANNOT think of the title/author. It does not seem
>to be "The Long Way Home" or "The Long Walk Home" but it's SOMETHING close
>to that. He's also audible to them for each split second he appears, and
>the cataclysm was caused because when he was nearly back to his start something
>tripped him, so he arrived back at the origin of the time-travel experiment
>fallen over ... which apparently put him inside some other solid matter. Boom!
>One project over the years of his appearance strung together the whooshing
>noise that came with him on each appearance, and finally figured out the
>'backward' part.
(Obviously irrelevant groups trimmed.)
"The Man who Walked Home," by Alice Sheldon, but of course given
the James Tiptree, Jr 'nym.
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Greg Goss
I vaguely recognize what you describe. It doesn't sound like Niven's
Svetz stories. (In one of those, a post-cuban-missle-war mutant who
looks like Death appears in Svetz's time machine and describes being
visible to other timelines, but neither Death nor Svetz are causing
the problems.)
It might have been one of Laumer's stories. Developing the
inter-timeline machine was 99.999(etc)% likely to cause disastrous
side effects. In one of them, the displaced guy builds a new
inter-time-line machine from the almost-completed work of the original
inventor and tries to return home. The box he built around the
machine is poorly sealed, so we get the strangling you describe. But
his particular machine isn't causing the disasters -- rather OTHER
instances of the same machine caused disasters much of a century
earlier in the timelines he crosses. I forget the specific story
title.
But even so, I seem to recall something closer to what you describe,
but cannot call it up.
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William George Ferguson
wrote:
>Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> found these unused words:
>
>>Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>>I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
>>>dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
>>>apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
>>>cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
>>>Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
>>>backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
Possibles include
(for the 'strangling') Tyger! Tyger! aka Stars My Destination
Timeliner by Charles Eric Maine
Neither are exact matches, but they qualify for memory distorted matches.
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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Dan Swartzendruber
wmgf...@newsguy.com says...
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:30:51 -0700, Sir F. A. Rien <jaS...@gbr.online.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> found these unused words:
> >
> >>Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
> >>>dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
> >>>apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
> >>>cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
> >>>Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
> >>>backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
Ouch. Ishtar was a really sh*tty movie. I think you meant "The Weapon
Shops of Isher"?
Kurt Busiek
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> I think you meant "The Weapon Shops of Isher"?
Pff. Any songs about software in that?!
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David Howdon
Is it James Tiptree Jr's "The Man Who Walked Home"?
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David DeLaney
>Tim Bruening wrote:
>> I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
>> dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
>> apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
>> cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
>> Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
>> backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
>
>Is it James Tiptree Jr's "The Man Who Walked Home"?
Yes. Yes it is. Thank you.
nemo
"Tim Bruening" <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
news:4A6FEBBD...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
I have a vague recollection of that one being on TV when it was black and
white.
Yes folks. It was a US police TV!!!
Quadibloc
> > >>Tim Bruening <tsbru...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>
> > >>>He might have been strangling. Its not "The
> > >>>Weapon Shops Of Ishtar" in which a 20th century reporter swings
> > >>>backwards and forwards in time, until he explodes in the Big Bang.
>
> Ouch. Ishtar was a really sh*tty movie. I think you meant "The Weapon
> Shops of Isher"?
But "The Ship of Ishtar" was not a bad book.
John Savard
Paul Ciszek
In article <HWntm.81004$OO7....@text.news.virginmedia.com>,
nemo <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote:
>
>"Tim Bruening" <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
>news:4A6FEBBD...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
>>I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
>> dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
>> apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
>> cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
I think the title is something like "The Man who Walked Home". The
problem is that he has tripped and fallen while travelling through
time, and yes, this does cause the appocalypse back at his time of
departure. As I recall, he was tripped up by a cameraman or lighting
crew or something trying to get a good picture of him in the future,
when technology had recovered enough to re-invent the Media Circus.
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Robert Sneddon
<86f073be-9de0-469b...@a37g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes
Did the ship have weapons? If so then you may be on to something.
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Kurt Busiek
>
> In article <HWntm.81004$OO7....@text.news.virginmedia.com>,
> nemo <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote:
>>
>> "Tim Bruening" <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
>> news:4A6FEBBD...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
>>> I have a vague memory of a story about a man stranded in another
>>> dimension. Every so often, he becomes visible to people in a post
>>> apocalyptic world. The man is traveling backwards in time, and is the
>>> cause of the cataclysm. He might have been strangling. Its not "The
>
> I think the title is something like "The Man who Walked Home".
If that's it, it's a James Tiptree story.
I'm currently working on a story that might wind up being called that,
but as I putter with it, I'm looking for alternatives. It fits really
well, though, and I expect the Tiptree is a major (if not conscious, at
least not early on) insiration.
> The
> problem is that he has tripped and fallen while travelling through
> time, and yes, this does cause the appocalypse back at his time of
> departure. As I recall, he was tripped up by a cameraman or lighting
> crew or something trying to get a good picture of him in the future,
> when technology had recovered enough to re-invent the Media Circus.
kdb
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