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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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Science Fiction and Literary Fiction - Is There a Difference?

David Frum: Why is Time so carefully treated in science fiction and not particularly expansively treated in literary fiction? Proust is of course a good case, but it's canonical memory, it's not counterfactual. He says everybody around the time that people started thinking about Time travel around the turn of the previous century was thinking aboutTime in more complex ways. The complexity of his treatment of memory is really something new in literature, he adds.

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