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Quest for the Future Study Guide

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by A. E. van Vogt
About 4 pages (1,251 words)
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Literary Precedents

H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) set the standard for time travel stories. Since the publication of The Time Machine, authors have sought to define the problems that would be associated with time travel. For instance, there are the time "paradoxes," such as how could a character be born if he goes back in time and murders his grandmother before his mother is conceived — if he is not born then his mother is born and then he.....

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Quest for the Future from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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