>From: "John English" <john_at_theenglishs.fsnet.co.uk>
>Having been ruminating about the whole Harshax thing for a few days I ended
>up wondering if it couldn't be both?
>
>Something like this:
>
>In the future Belintar Harshax finally frees himself from the magical
>imprisonment (or whatever it is Jar-Eel has done to him) and begins
>plotting his revenge. He builds up a power base becoming the Harshax of
>KOS. Finally through magical experimentation he finds a way of travelling
>back in time to confront his tormentors.
>
>Travelling backwards in time however has an unravelling effect on memory
>(which after all is supposed to develop forward in time) so he ends up in
>the past highly magically skilled and convinced of his right to rule but
>with only shadowy recollection of what brought him here (shades of Quantum
>Leap).
>
>Again he builds up a power base, but it is only with the coming of the
>Lunar Empire that he begins to recall what happened to him, and at the last
>moment, now knowing what is coming makes the preparations that ensure his
>eventual release. And around he goes again...
>
Sounds very similar to the plot in Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World" - with the main antagonist going backwards and forwards across time trying to defeat the SSR but not having seemingly come from anywhere in the first place.
Temporal paradox, gotta love it!!
mike
8-)
xxx
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