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I admit to only having read vol. 1 of HP, and having dropped it after that (I hate pseudogreek/latin babble with a passion, and the whole oooOOOooo foreshadowing didn't help). Maybe I'll re-read it ocne I have kids to read something to, but I'll probably avoid it even then because they should be old enough to read it themselves if they can read Harry Potter, and I'd probably die because my stomach would strangle my brain.
That said, villains in fiction NEVER use their most powerful weapon to just wipe out all opposition. It makes for dull works of fiction, because 'After careful planning, the Rebels ran into a carefully planned ambush by The Dictator, and all died horribly, with variance only in duration' makes for a satisfactorily gory and depressing read, but probably won't sell too many books or tickets, with a few exceptions.
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Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court is also time travel, technically. And highly enjoyable, if you like Twain.
And on a sidenote: Does it count as time travel if you travel into the future by means of being frozen? I'd say yes.
That said, villains in fiction NEVER use their most powerful weapon to just wipe out all opposition. It makes for dull works of fiction, because 'After careful planning, the Rebels ran into a carefully planned ambush by The Dictator, and all died horribly, with variance only in duration' makes for a satisfactorily gory and depressing read, but probably won't sell too many books or tickets, with a few exceptions.
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Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court is also time travel, technically. And highly enjoyable, if you like Twain.
And on a sidenote: Does it count as time travel if you travel into the future by means of being frozen? I'd say yes.
Well then Futurama, tosh. Duh.
South Park, when Cartman freezes himself so he doesn't have to wait for the Wii to be released.
Woop woop woop woop!
Also, many of Lem's books deal with travel through the galaxies and the application of the specific theory of relativity.
Also, many of Lem's books deal with travel through the galaxies and the application of the specific theory of relativity.
and Woody Allen's 'Sleeper' and Rip Van Winkle.
No one? Seriously? Not a one of you puts Donnie Darko out there?
The only movie I've ever seen on the subject of time travel that references the theories of such noted physicists as... Kurt Gödel, Einstein, Rosen, Matt Visser, Willem Jacob van Stockum, Tipler, Kornel Lanczos, Robert Forward, Lijun Wang, Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen.
The only movie I've ever seen on the subject of time travel that references the theories of such noted physicists as... Kurt Gödel, Einstein, Rosen, Matt Visser, Willem Jacob van Stockum, Tipler, Kornel Lanczos, Robert Forward, Lijun Wang, Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen.