Re: Confirmation "Enterprise" is in Alternate Universe ('Carpenter Street' spoilers)

"Joseph Nebus" wrote...
> "Chris Basken" writes:
> >Since the time travelers themselves came from the natural timeline, it was
> >theoretically possible for one to go back and alter history so that he was
> >never born, but Asimov's take on the process was that such precision was
> >nearly impossible.  That is, the time travelers didn't leap forward and
> >backwards over the span of years or centuries, but whole millennia at a
time,
> >because it was hard to control exactly when you "landed."
>
> Er ... I think you've convoluted ``The End Of Eternity'' with
> ``The Ugly Little Boy.'' In ``The Ugly Little Boy'' the time travel
> mechanism used could only dimly focus -- and in its first iteration could
> not focus on anything nearer than about 50,000 years in the past -- but in
> ``The End of Enternity'' tight control was possible, indeed, essential.
> The changes made in the timeline were made in niches as little as a couple
> minutes wide.

Hm, now I'll have to reread EoE (it's been a while).  I've never actually read
Ugly Little Boy...

I think maybe because they dealt with such huge swathes of time in EoE, I'm
misremembering the process.