I couldn’t remember its title, so it took me a while to find it. After all these years, it remains on the top of the heap of time travel tales. I first read this story by Robert Heinlein long ago as part of a compilation of his classic short stories. This review contains spoilers, so if you’ve never read this, you might want to stop now and allow yourself to be surprised. Time travel is an impossible concept I cannot understand because it is inherently incomprehensible. Not many things make my brain do backflips and somersaults. Time travel makes my brain go “eek.” This is a compliment. Parallels to the rise of Adam and the tangled lineage of the families of Dark are readily apparent in these pioneering works.Home › Book Review › ALL YOU ZOMBIES, ROBERT HEINLEINīy Marilyn Armstrong on Febru Then as an older man, he places the baby with the orphanage. As a grown man, he travels to the past and rapes his previous self as a teenage girl she gives birth. An intersex child, raised in an orphanage as a girl, grows up and eventually has gender reassignment surgery.
"-All You Zombies-" plays with the paradox of being one's own ancestor.
To make a long story short, Bob turns out to be Diktor, who travels to his own past to recruit himself. At Diktor's insistence, he returns to the past, where he accumulates artifacts that will assist him in seizing power. Graduate student Bob Wilson is transported through a Time Gate 30,000 years into the future, where he meets the chieftain Diktor. "By His Bootstraps" is the source of the name "bootstrap paradox" for the appearance of an entity with no apparent history. An early story, "By His Bootstraps", and the later "-All You Zombies-", presage in some detail the paradoxes of Dark.
Heinlein must have been bored to distraction by his work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, a problem he solved by recruiting professor Isaac Asimov to join him there, and speculating in print about the paradoxes that would result from time travel.
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