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james_davis_nicollBy His Bootstraps
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Graduate student Bob Wilson is interrupted in mid-thesis by a man whose face is oddly familiar. In short order he finds himself caught up in nested causal loops, forced to play out an assortment of different roles in the same events.
Was this the first causal loop story?
The production values on this are quite good, with the cost, I believe of making the file size comparatively Brobdingnagian. Similarly, Dreyfus does a nice job of conveying what a dim-witted, self-centered asshole Wilson is, worse even that that jackass from The Door Into Summer. The entire plot rests on two things: that Bob is consistently incapable of recognizing himself (or remembering that he has this issue) and that he is the sort of person who will seduce a young woman with false promises knowing he is planning on legging it for the 30,000 so he can rule an entire planet. "Ruling" in this case seems to consist of letting the people of the future (or at least their more attractive women) wait on him hand and foot. We can only hope for a The Man Who Would Be King ending in Bob's future.
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if that does not work, go here and look around.
Graduate student Bob Wilson is interrupted in mid-thesis by a man whose face is oddly familiar. In short order he finds himself caught up in nested causal loops, forced to play out an assortment of different roles in the same events.
Was this the first causal loop story?
The production values on this are quite good, with the cost, I believe of making the file size comparatively Brobdingnagian. Similarly, Dreyfus does a nice job of conveying what a dim-witted, self-centered asshole Wilson is, worse even that that jackass from The Door Into Summer. The entire plot rests on two things: that Bob is consistently incapable of recognizing himself (or remembering that he has this issue) and that he is the sort of person who will seduce a young woman with false promises knowing he is planning on legging it for the 30,000 so he can rule an entire planet. "Ruling" in this case seems to consist of letting the people of the future (or at least their more attractive women) wait on him hand and foot. We can only hope for a The Man Who Would Be King ending in Bob's future.
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