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By His Bootstraps

Robert a. heinlein.

First published October 1, 1941

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"You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.” “Well, didn’t you? You were there.” “No, I didn’t—no... well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.” “Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.”

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  1. Time for the Stars

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  2. Heinlein's Have Space Suit will Travel Poster celebrating the Virginia

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  3. Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, New English Library, 1975-81

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  4. THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW: FUTURE HISTORY STORIES

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  5. Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein

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  6. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER

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  3. Can We Really Travel Through Time?

  4. 3. Political SciFi and Scientist Futurologists: Robert Heinlein, Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson

  5. All You Zombies Paradox

  6. The Science Behind Time Travel

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  1. By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert A. Heinlein. "By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. The story was published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald; the same issue has "Common Sense" under ...