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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 17/04/2008
IE is the work of Lucifer, honey. I won't touch it with the veritable barge pole.

Try to find the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke
I take it this something different to the various Doctor Who time wars?
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Too cool for subject

posted by [identity profile] rainbowchicken.livejournal.com at 10:11pm on 18/04/2008
Unfortunately when I order things online, they won't let me use either Firefox or Opera, so I have to use IE. Yes, it does suck.

And yes, Simon Hawke's Time Wars are probably very different from the Doctor Who brand. *g* The premise is essentially that in the future, once time travel is developed, wars will be fought in the past rather than the present, thus eliminating property damage & civilian deaths. In the first book, The Ivanhoe Gambit", a referee who is supposed to be making sure both sides follow the rules, goes renegade & decides to change the future by taking Richard I's place & making sure that he doesn't go anywhere *near* Agincourt, and is thus never killed there, meaning no King John, no Magna Carta... It's a fun series, and the difficulty in finding used copies suggests that other people are as unwilling to part with theirs as I am with mine. ;-)
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Sounds good. I'll try and get hold of a copy...

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:32am on 19/04/2008
Maybe I can order one from the library.

Sounds like you'd enjoy the DW Time War too. The Time Lords have always been insistent on non-interference in alien affairs because of the dangers of paradox. They are eventually attacked by a renegade cult of their own people who use paradox as a weapon - this leads to the Last Great Time War in which time-travelling species war against each other across time.

If you ever saw the Tom Baker Doctor's episode Genesis of the Daleks (in which he's sent back in time to destroy the species at it's genesis) - this is now considered to be a part of the Time War that's become such a major feature of the latter Doctor stories.

It's quite heavy and angsty in Who and all the Timey-Wimey stuff makes it deliciously challenging.
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