Underrated time travel novel, ‘The Big Time’ by Fritz Leiber.
‘The Law of Conservation of Reality.’ Basically, if you go back into the past and shoot Hitler, he’ll only stay dead for a few hours. When he comes back to life he’ll remember feeling really sick, and a week later won’t even remember that. It takes an army doing millions of changes over thousands of years to make even a slight change to the time line.
Underrated time travel novel, ‘The Big Time’ by Fritz Leiber.
‘The Law of Conservation of Reality.’ Basically, if you go back into the past and shoot Hitler, he’ll only stay dead for a few hours. When he comes back to life he’ll remember feeling really sick, and a week later won’t even remember that. It takes an army doing millions of changes over thousands of years to make even a slight change to the time line.