I had begun reading a short story or a novel on gutenberg.org couple of years ago (Those who don’t know, it’s a site where you can find all kinds of public domain ebooks.) The story was set in a distant future where people time travel to various time periods of the past and live there and thereby drain resources of the past. There was some kind of structure called time dome or smth like that. It read from the pov of a guy called Ted, Tom or Taylor. I had to uninstall my browser and therefore lose all data. Tried to find it, but couldn’t. It was interesting enough for me to remember even today.

Edit: I can’t believe this myself, but I somehow found it and it was actually reaalllyy easy. Took me like 30 seconds. I just went to Project Gutenberg, opened the books about time travel section, scrolled down and down and there it was… Tyrants of Time by Milton Lesser. Even though I read it in Gutenberg.org, not once did I look up in Gutenberg itself. I made social media posts, googled it, asked chatgpt and all that. I have no idea why I didn’t look it up in Gutenberg itself. And the structure I called ‘Time Dome’ was actually Eradrome, it’s a place that facilitates time travel. And the protagonist is actually Tedor Barwan. Damn, I’m really stupid!!

  • TheChinaman79@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Story Time In the early years of the 1980’s I got a book from the scholastic book fair. It was the second in a series, but even without backstory I loved that book. I read it over and over till the spine gave out. We grew up on the poorer side so replacement was not an option. Eventually puberty hit and focus shifted. Then one day like a dream I started to think about that story. The name of the book and characters lost, I sometimes would bring up the story in conversation and nobody would know what I was talking about. Fast forward to the mid 2000’s and a movie came out. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I loved that movie so much and I couldn’t understand why. When I eventually heard about the series of books it was based on I bought the whole set. I tell you, reading Prince Caspian after all those years was like getting to spend time with a long passed loved one. To this day still one of my favorite stories.