All the Myriad Ways
All the Myriad Ways is a collection of 14 short stories and essays by science fiction author Larry Niven, originally published in 1971. Contents "All the Myriad Ways" "Passerby" "For a Foggy Night" "Wait it Out" "The Jigsaw Man" "Not Long Before the End" "Unfinished Story #1" "Unfinished Story #2" "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" "Inconstant Moon" (Made into an Outer Limits episode) "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?" "Becalmed in Hell"
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- All the Myriad Ways - by Larry Niven https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/m...
Not a time travel premise, but rather a parallel universe approach... for that I'd suggest The Theory and Practice of Time Travel which expresses Novikov self-consistency principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...) (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s_laws#Niven's_Law_(Ti... ).
I'd also suggest a watch of Time Travel in Fiction Rundown - Minute Physics https://youtu.be/d3zTfXvYZ9s
If you want something longer on the subject, then Timemaster by Robert L. Forward is a good book to read ( https://archive.org/details/timemaster00forw/page/n11/mode/2... ). It begins with:
> There exist semieducated but obstinate people who have raised the concept of strict local causality to godhead, and attempt to use such words as "obviously" and "it only makes sense that . . ." in an attempt to "prove" that their version of causality cannot be violated, and that any sort of time machine is logically impossible. From my reading of the scientific literature, they are wrong. If I receive a letter from this sort of person complaining about the "impossibility" of the time machines in this novel, I will throw the letter in the nearest wastebasket . . . unless the letter is accompanied by a reprint of a scientific paper published in Physical Review (or any other reputable, refereed scientific journal), written by the person writing the letter, which proves that the paper "Cauchy Problem in Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves" by Friedman, Morris, Novikov, Echeverria, Klinkhammer, Thorne, and Yurtsever, is erroneous.
You'll note that history in that story remains consistent... and you can't kill Hitler.
- I'd recommend reading the short story All the Myriad Ways by Niven ( https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/m... ) and Anathem by Neal Stephenson (which is much longer than a short story).
Also on the subject, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...
- Quantum immortality is a neat thing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit... ). I'd suggest the short story All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven ( https://erenow.net/common/the-best-alternate-history-stories... ) and the exceedingly long story Nangurz ol Arny Fgrcurafba (rot13 because it kind of is a spoiler).
- See the classic Larry Niven short story Inconstant Moon, collected in All the Myriad Ways.
- Larry Niven had a nice short story on that, called "All The Myriad Ways". The Wikipedia article on the short story collection of the same name [1] includes a link to the story itself in their collection of old Galaxy issues.
- Give All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven a read - https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10#page/n31/mo... . Its not a world (or multiworlds) I would want to live in.
