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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys - rerun

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The Paradox of Time Travel

The other possible way to resolve the paradoxes of time travel might be called the alternative histories hypothesis. The idea here is that when time travelers go back to the past, they enter alternative histories which differ from recorded history. This article was originally published on 4th November 2013 and has been updated with a correction by Linda Grant. We are happy to make clear that while Stephen Hawking's brief history of time sold 10 million copies over 25 years, it wasn't written by him or his publisher Bantam Books. In fact Professor Hawking threw out the book after he realised there was an error in one of its pages. And we will now move on to Good Morning Midnight by Gene Reese.

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