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What was the first 'time loop' story featuring the bootstrap paradox?
1935: "The Man Who Met Himself", a short story by Ralph Milne Farley (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar); first published in the August, 1935 issue of Top-Notch magazine; reprinted in Farley's ...
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Seeking a short story about backwards time travel and looping history
Alex & Phyllis Eisenstein, The Trouble with the Past.
Sadly, I can't find any details on Internet, but it mostly fits your description, although it happens partly in year 1870 and there are no ...
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What was the first 'time loop' story featuring the bootstrap paradox?
In researching this answer to a different question, I came across an earlier example of a bootstrap paradox in the 1904 story The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye, available on project Gutenberg ...
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Which Sci-Fi work introduced the idea of "Protecting Child-self"?
The Star Trek: The Animated Series episode Yesteryear (1973) features Spock traveling back in time and saving his child self from death by posing as his "cousin" Selek.
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In the movie Terminator 2, why doesn't the T-800 cease to exist when history is changed?
As The Terminator itself says, there's still one chip in existence that could somehow make its way to the creation of Skynet and the Terminators: his own.
With such a large amount of time, there are ...
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What's the solution of Bootstrap Paradox without the involvement of multiple timelines?
I believe the fact that the Doctor said "Beethoven never existed" points to the fact that a person called Beethoven never existed.
The Time Traveller was familiar with the works of 'Beethoven', but ...
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