YASID: Man Stranded In Another Dimension

[Tim Bruening]

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.

[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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[Greg Goss]

Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

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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[David Howdon]

Is it James Tiptree Jr's "The Man Who Walked Home"?

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plank removed. Each day he saw a nose, then the ears, then the neck,
forequarters, back and finally the tail. He pondered this for a time
and eventually declared. �I understand now. The nose causes the tail�

[David DeLaney]

David Howdon <@[donotspamme]yahoo.com> wrote:
>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!!!

[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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