Comments on: Escape Pod Flash: Grandpa?

By: Starpod

Starpod — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:26:44 +0000

Loved it, sent the link to a friend and now she is an Escapepodist too.

By: ruthdabu

ruthdabu — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:46:10 +0000

I think this story is great! There are lots of points which can be used in out daily lives. I hope there are lots of these kinds later on.

By: Aryz

Aryz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:14:53 +0000

I really appreciate the entry on this site. But no matter how weird it may sound, it may be possible due to the technological advances that we are attaining theses days. But that would be in the long future.

By: Blaine Boy

Blaine Boy — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:30:34 +0000

Maybe it's not time travel. (Sorry guys, conspiracy theory coming...)

Maybe it's a travel through parallel universes where the guy actually has a grandson so the travel back through time is actually into another universe so the course of a different universe is changed but since the universe that was traveled into is set up for a different chain of events which means that causality (or whatever) has to save the professor.

If you understood any of that, kudos.

Sincerely, the Blaine Boy

By: MasterThief

MasterThief — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:00:07 +0000

A chuckle-worthy ending.

By: Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:34:35 +0000

Enjoyed this one, and the revived intrest in Flash Fiction on EP

By: Podcasts on the iPhone, #1 of an Occasional Series. « The Unfocused Life

Podcasts on the iPhone, #1 of an Occasional Series. « The Unfocused Life — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:49:53 +0000

[...] Escape Pod Flash: Grandpa? by Edward M. Lerner. [...]

By: Ken_K

Ken_K — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:51:40 +0000

Despite what the big brains in physics say, time travel still seems impossible to me, and so the “suspension of disbelief” mindset so necessary for good sci-fi was hard to establish. At least it was for me.

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:23:09 +0000

Can the paradox really work just one way? How is that possible if history is already written in the “flow” of time?

By: phignewton

phignewton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:22:53 +0000

hehe… GOOD ONE GRANDPA!

By: L33tminion

L33tminion — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:56:00 +0000

His lecture just says that it appears to be impossible. I thought he resumed the lecture after (evidently) being proved wrong because he wanted to see what would happen next.

I'm still wondering why future grandson was so determined to kill his ancestor.

But I thought it was extremely funny that the one who delivered the Take That to causality wasn't the grandson, but the professor. After all, just who traveled back in time and persuaded him that he shouldn't have kids?

By: CaroCogitatus

CaroCogitatus — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:21:06 +0000

I usually don't see the twist before it's sprung on me, but I saw this one coming.

The story was interesting and amusing, but I was struck that the physics professor was wholly uninterested in the demonstrated evidence that causality is preserved (How? What is the mechanism? Can it be predicted? Can it be altered? He asks none of these questions), and the huuuuuuge fact that apparently time travel IS possible.

But no, he just goes on teaching that "time travel is impossible" day after day, despite physical evidence to the contrary. I metaphorically walked out of his classroom when I realized that.

Then again, it was a Flash piece. Maybe I should just relax.