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"I am first of all not a science fiction writer … I write, I suppose, what the Latin Americans call magic realism."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Causality-violation Device (or Weapon) | ||
| Any of a variety of technologies intended to exploit time travel as a weapon. |
| Ilya forced himself to uncurl his fingers from the arms of his chair. "You're saying that the capsule we're about to retrieve is a bomb?..." [Rachel] grinned, humorlessly. "If you don't believe me, that's your problem. We've seen half a dozen incidents like this before - the UN Defense Intelligence Causal Weapons Analysis Committee, I mean - incidents where one or another secret attempt to assemble a causality-violation device came to grief. Not usually anything as crude as your closed timelike flight path and oracle hack, by the way; these were real CVDs. History editors, minimax censors, grandfather bombs, and a really nasty toy called a space ablator..." |
| Technovelgy from Singularity Sky,
by Charles Stross. Published by Ace Science Fiction in 2003 Additional resources -
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