Comments on: Fantasy Magazine reviews Dark Matter: Reading the Bones & Cosmos Latinos http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=782 Feminists blog about science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. Books, movies, comics, games, reason, & ranting. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Kim http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=782&cpage=1#comment-219194 John Kim Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:45:46 +0000 http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=782#comment-219194 It's a curious about causing change vs. preventing, which I see as quite different. I've often noted a strong conservative tendency in both time travel and alternate history stories. Time travel often has a theme of that whatever happened was the way it was supposed to, and tinkering with it will just bring about ruin. Alternate history postulates change, but the change is usually about keeping old traditions forward in time. It’s a curious about causing change vs. preventing, which I see as quite different.

I’ve often noted a strong conservative tendency in both time travel and alternate history stories. Time travel often has a theme of that whatever happened was the way it was supposed to, and tinkering with it will just bring about ruin. Alternate history postulates change, but the change is usually about keeping old traditions forward in time.

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