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If you were writing a story and it included time travel, how would it work? (lemm.ee)
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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

The "uncaused action" version, similar to Stross's Palimpsest. The traveller goes back and by changing the past creates a future where the chain of events that led them to go back may no longer occurr.

With a dash of "anchored time device", as seen in Primer, where the traveler can't go back any further than the activation of the device that brings them back.