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The Great Time Machine Hoax 1964

Time travel, Fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, general

Looking into the past is difficult - even for the worlds largest computer. Rather than project what is happening in the past, the computer finds it far simpler to send the team back into time. Too bad, it did not warn them.

Time travel Fiction American Science fiction Fiction, general

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Classical in form, unpretentious, cool and plot-driven.

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“Der Regen klatschte gegen die Scheiben des Hubschraubers und verschlechterte die ohnehin miserablen Sichtverhältnisse noch mehr, Chester W. Chester IV stellte den Autopiloten auf SCHWEBEN, drückte die Nase gegen das kalte Plexiglas und starrte nach unten, wo sich die braunen Zelte und gelben Wohnwagen von Wowsers Interkontinentaler Wunderschau nur undeutlich von der grau-grünen Wiese abhoben.”