The Man Who Folded Himself
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The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974. The
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By His Bootstraps
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"By His Bootstraps" is a 20,000 word 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 Man Who Folded Himself
…for Vector, Christopher Priest thought that Gerrold had unintentionally replicated the closed-loop timelines of Robert A. Heinlein's short stories "By His Bootstraps" (1941) and "'—All You Zombies—'" (1959, also featuring a protagonist who becomes his own parents), only less successfully. Priest commented that while…
Heinlein by his bootstraps