Project Gutenberg 2023-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 142 Del Rey, Lester 1915 1993 Rey, Lester del Knapp, Leonard Absolutely no paradox $aUnited States :$bColumbia Publications, Inc., $c1951. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Absolutely No Paradox" by Lester Del Rey is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. The narrative explores the implications of time travel and addresses the paradoxes associated with it, particularly why people from the future have not visited the present if time travel is possible. Through a conversation between old friends at a social club, the story delves into the philosophical and scientific dilemmas surrounding time travel. The plot centers around Ned Brussels, who recounts the story of his friend Pete LeFranc—a pioneer in time travel who had successfully sent a cat a few days into the future. As Ned grapples with the paradoxes of time travel, including the absence of time travelers, the conversation reveals the tension between faith in scientific advancement and real-world evidence. Ultimately, a young man, who turns out to be Pete himself, enters the scene, leading to a revelation that time machines only work in one direction; they cannot return to the past, thus eliminating the potential for paradoxes. The story leaves readers pondering the nature of time and the consequences of human curiosity in the realm of science. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220527172551delrey 1951 US Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Time travel -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 35733 2025-06-28T04:35:29.284900 text/html 35020 2023-04-05T06:29:22 text/html 244560 2025-06-28T04:35:32.060881 application/epub+zip 243327 2025-06-28T04:35:30.496923 application/epub+zip 167705 2025-06-28T04:35:29.736901 application/epub+zip 778371 2025-06-28T04:35:33.229903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 771211 2025-06-28T04:35:31.575897 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 29361 2025-06-28T04:35:29.157963 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 29109 2023-04-05T06:29:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18631 2025-06-28T04:35:33.353874 application/rdf+xml 29699 2025-06-28T04:35:30.075890 image/jpeg 4860 2025-06-28T04:35:29.903897 image/jpeg 11153 2023-04-05T06:29:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 1418852 2023-04-05T06:29:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 1425734 2025-06-28T04:35:29.302897 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under McCann, Edson