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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 May 2026 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Stumbled upon this thread accidentally this morning. Reminds me of something I learned about just recently. Hemingway is credited with having written the shortest short story:

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

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James Woodcock
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Posted: 01 May 2026 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
That is one sad story.

I also like Alan Moore’s time travel story.

machine. I’ve just invented a time
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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 May 2026 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Robert Silverberg wrote a time travel novel, UP THE LINE, that basically ended with
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 01 May 2026 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Silverberg's era was such a special time for
science/speculative fiction. I didn't discover "it"
(collective for *many* writers) til the '80s, but man, what
a wealth of material.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 May 2026 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
STAR TREK got me reading sci-fi more than I had before, and in the late Sixties, early Seventies, it was indeed a wondrous time. Silverberg. Herbert. Zelazny. To name but three.
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