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Listopia > Silverfast's votes on the list Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction (7 Books)
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The Paradox Hotel
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"(Schrödinger's Cat) "The story is built around a literal time-travel paradox where a dead body exists and does not exist at the same time.""
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The Twin Paradox
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"(Twin Paradox) "...a government experiment on the Texas coast that creates a time-warped zone where ten years pass for every three minutes outside.""
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The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model
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"(Fermi Paradox) "Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.""
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All You Zombies
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"(Bootstrap Paradox) "A lonely traveler is recruited by the Temporal Bureau, only to discover through a series of wild time jumps that he is his own mother, father, and child.""
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The Man Who Folded Himself
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"(Grandfather Paradox) "The protagonist inherits a time-travel belt and begins visiting himself in different eras, eventually creating an entire society made up of thousands of different versions of himself from alternate timelines.""
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Catch-22
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"(The Loan Paradox) "...a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.""
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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"(Theseus's Paradox) "It questions whether an object remains the same object if all of its components are gradually replaced over time.""
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