Gregory's Server@leon @ewen H. Beam Piper, 1950s and 60s SciFi author, wrote 1 book and a series of short stories in his "Paratime" series all with this exact plot. The first civilization to discover alternate probability time travel monopolizes the technology and colonizes all the time lines where humans never developed or went extinct, and manipulate more primitive cultures to exploit specific resources. Endless worlds sliced finely like pages in a book, with similar groupings around major global events.
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 @leon @Urban_Hermit @ewen  @bruce @Urban_Hermit @ewen yes, clearly a giant, if he can pipe entire h-beams like a small urchin pipes a penny whistle  @leon @ewen I think he didn't like his first name, Horace. His SciFi stuff, as in space ships & alien worlds, he wrote every book within one continuous 5,000 years of future human history. He is considered to be the guy who originated the concept of a federation of planets. But there were entirely different eras: a Federation era with colony worlds & a unified space navy (most of his novels), a Space Viking era of reunification after a dark age, an endless Empire era - fascinating speculation. |
@Urban_Hermit @ewen gosh what a name
to be a piper of h-beams