"All You Zombies--": Five Classic Stories (Audiobook)

from smichaelwilson

A nice little time-travel story by Heinlein, "All you Zombies..." features the themes of gender duality and personal identity that are prevalent in many of his works. Mostly a play on paradoxes and bloodlines, and arguably ripped off by the British sci-fi series Red Dwarf (although some might cal...

from ragwaine

I love reading old sci-fi. I wasn't around when this was written but I can imagine that it must have been amazing when it was coming out. The character's voices and situations bring to life this magical time that existed not so long ago that it's mythical, but still exotic. One note about the a...

from nzagalo

An interesting exercise on the paradoxes of time-travel, plus done with suspense savoir-faire. I thought that it could gain from being extended, giving more detail, explaining and making it clearer, but after writing this, re-thought that idea and thought no. The premiss is really good, but very ...

from Veeralpadhiar

This 19 page long short-story deals with the paradoxes of time-travel. Read it, it won't take much of your time. And oh, don't forget to read it again, immediately! It's more fun that way! P.S. - Try not to think too much about the story if you happen to read it late in the night or you are ...

from AltheaAnn

This is a time paradox story. It's not specifically *about* gender, but Heinlein's deeply sexist assumptions about how gender affects personality and his assumptions about how even a future society's sexism will not change in any way, are fully on display here. (In the future, women don't become ...