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In five pages this paper thematically compares these science fiction short stories and the devices the author employs to convey these themes. Three sources that were supplied by the customer are listed in an incomplete bibliography.
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of scientists with the illusion that they have the power to control both time and the cosmos. The consequences of this illusion form the basis of a trio of
science fiction short stories - Paul J. Nahins "Newtons Gift," published in 1979, Robert Silverbergs "Absolutely Inflexible," published in 1956, and Philip K. Dicks "Meddler," published in 1954. Each
of these stories involves not only time travel but also most importantly the repercussions of scientific intervention in the cycle of time. The authors present different scenarios in which
time travel is unsuccessfully used and reinforce the dangers of artificially manipulating time through such literary devices as the intermingling of characterization and irony.
Paul J. Nahin is an electrical engineer by vocation, and therefore possesses the technical knowledge necessary to make his protagonist Wallace John Steinhope believable. Steinhope is a scientist
who hates nothing more than injustice, and to him the greatest injustice of all is wasting time. The thought of his hero Isaac Newton growing old before his time
because of the endless calculations he was forced to manually make to prove his theories distressed Dr. Steinhope greatly. So he decided to travel back in time and mercifully
ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will effortless perform the calculations for the seventeenth-century genius. But the situation Steinhope had composed in his mind
bore little resemblance to what actually transpired. He had been blinded by science, so to speak, and the illusion that his knowledge would enthusiastically received by Newton was fueled
partly by ego and partly by the belief that hundreds of years of advancement through time could be adequately summarized in a few minutes. Going back in time is
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