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The Man Who Folded Himself
 
 

The Man Who Folded Himself (Hardcover)

de David Gerrold (Author) "IN THE BOX was a belt ..." En savoir plus
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"Uncanny allegorical force . . . altogether most impressive." This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.


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"Widely imaginative and mindbending" This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Not the ultimate time travel story, Avril 22 2004
Par Eric James Stone (Eagle Mountain, UT United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I bought this book because I'd heard it was the ultimate time travel story, at least in terms of taking time travel to its logical conclusion.

While well-written, I don't feel it lives up to the hype. Robert Heinlein's short stories "All You Zombies" and "By His Bootstraps" do a better job of taking the logic of the basic concept to its inevitable conclusion.

Gerrold also leaves open a major flaw in the time-travel logic of this novel: the time travel device loops infinitely through time without wearing out. (Merely the friction from being touched would eventually wear it away; look at what happens to old statues that are rubbed for luck.) He is hardly unique in making this mistake (although Heinlein avoided it in both stories mentioned above), and it is not of tremendous significance within the plot. Still, the flaw is important enough to keep this from being as thorough and logical a story as some of its admirers claim.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Time travel as a venue for narcissistic eroticism, Mars 27 2004
Par tvgaz "tvgaz" (Tucson, Arizona USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
A thoroughly disappointing (and disjointed) enterprise. Each explanation for time-travel paradoxes (or lack of them) was eradicated by a later episode of the main characters' (yes, that's plural) ramblings.

And, concepts that offered genuine intrigue (meeting and interacting with a version of oneself who happens to be the opposite sex; bringing getaway estates wholly constructed to locations that predate the dawn of man) were left to flounder for lack of viable explanations as to how such events might have come to be.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 What's up with the sex?, Mars 24 2004
Par Santos Medrano (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This book had a fascinating premise and some pretty neat twists and concepts. However, it was pretty much ruined by the inclusion of sex, both gay and straight. Now, I have nothing against sex or depictions of it (in either film or literature), but it just felt so wrong here. I expected a science fiction story and instead I got soft core porn.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 A somewhat misleading title...don't read it to your kids!
I enjoyed the beginning of the story and the exploration of some of the paradoxical theories of time travel. Read more
Publié le Mars 18 2004 par Benjamin Gordon

2.0étoiles sur 5 Highly overrated
While I can't say that I didn't like this book at all, I can say that it was hardly a work of literary genius. Read more
Publié le Fév 17 2004 par kiku-chan

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Quest for your Essential Being
Sometime in the last year Toby Johnson and his partner Kip Dollar were over for supper one evening and the subject turned to science-fiction. Read more
Publié le Fév 5 2004 par whitecranejournal

5.0étoiles sur 5 An important time travel story
This is a short novel, reprinted again after some 30 years. It's an important and classic time travel story, dealing seriously with the subject in a realistic way, being bold in... Read more
Publié le Fév 2 2004

1.0étoiles sur 5 PHONEY ADVERTISING
I really don't understand why this book is given so many excellent reveiws. I completely agree with another reviewer who felt the book took a minor point on the dangers of time... Read more
Publié le Janv. 11 2004

4.0étoiles sur 5 Worth the effort!
I'm a sucker for a good old-fashioned time travel story, especially one which presents a paradox. Having David Gerrold's THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF back in print is a blessing,... Read more
Publié le Déc 10 2003 par Babytoxie

1.0étoiles sur 5 Don't get fooled by Folded
... I expected an entertaining saga about time travel, but was treated to Mr. Gerrold's ... coming of age. Read more
Publié le Sep 21 2003

4.0étoiles sur 5 More Psychological Fiction than Science Fiction
As others have pointed out, this novel weaves a dizzying web of time travel paradoxes. But the science fiction elements, it seems to me, are only a framework for a deeper... Read more
Publié le Aoû 29 2003

5.0étoiles sur 5 Speaks to the 12-Year-Old In You
Concise writing. Easy reading. Fascinating concepts. This book uses time travel in ways I've never thought of. It's a page-turner. Read more
Publié le Jui 25 2003 par JEFF F. HAINES

5.0étoiles sur 5 FANTASTIC!
This is by far my favorite David Gerrold novel, and that's saying something considering that his Chtorr novels are some of the greatest sci-fi books ever written. Read more
Publié le Mai 20 2002

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