http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/19/when-sci-fi-plays-play-with-your-identity/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/19/when-sci-fi-plays-play-with-your-identity/#comment-2721 Malcolm Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:09:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1364#comment-2721 Michael the Civilized thanks for that tip. Parfit's use goes back to 1984, so I'll be curious to see whether he got it from that novel. Michael the Civilized thanks for that tip. Parfit’s use goes back to 1984, so I’ll be curious to see whether he got it from that novel.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/19/when-sci-fi-plays-play-with-your-identity/#comment-2720 Michael the Civilized Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:32:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1364#comment-2720 The dilemma -- beamed by a teleporter; original version is not destroyed -- is a major plot device in Algis Budrys's novel "Rogue Moon" (1960). The dilemma — beamed by a teleporter; original version is not destroyed — is a major plot device in Algis Budrys’s novel “Rogue Moon” (1960).

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/19/when-sci-fi-plays-play-with-your-identity/#comment-2719 Suresh Narayanaswamy Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:26:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1364#comment-2719 I look forward [pun unintended] to your future posts. I look forward [pun unintended] to your future posts.

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