Field Disruption by Dave Weaver

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Re: Field Disruption by Dave Weaver

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CCC wrote:A very good story. I liked how the event happened in this tale; I've seen similar stories before (one of the more ambitious ones involved time machines that needed to drag a star along with them for power, all going back at once to see why there was such a concentration of stars at a certain place and time...) but this was very well handled and neatly done. I especially liked the second timeship - by then timetravel is routine enough that it's used for school outings. (But how do they prevent themselves from running into all the other school outings to the same event?)
Fortunately, a cross-time cellular network reduces the precision of chrono-GPS signals to the point where the original problem (landing EXACTLY at the same space-time coordinates) no longer occurs.
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Re: Field Disruption by Dave Weaver

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And why weren't both ships annihilated?

Nice application of the old time-travel paradox trick.
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