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Timequake

A concious but bored universe decides to stop expanding and back us all up to the year 1991, forcing everyone to relive an entire unremarkable decade of deja-vu.

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  • "A concious but bored universe decides to stop expanding and back us all up to the year 1991, forcing everyone to relive an entire unremarkable decade of deja-vu."@en
  • "The aftershocks of the Timequake of 2001 force everyone to relive exactly the last ten years, but after time gets back to normal, Miles Cunningham experiences the real surprise."@en
  • "The aftershocks of the Timequake of 2001 force everyone to relive exactly the last ten years, but after time gets back to normal, Miles Cunningham experiences the real surprise."
  • "According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade, for good or ill, a second time. As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he's lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years."@en
  • "The universe itself is one of the protagonists of this novel, in which it decides to stop expanding for a while and see what happens, resulting in chaos when everything eventually does return to normal."@en
  • "According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York on February 13, 2001. The universe decides to go back a decade to 1991, forcing everyone to endure 10 years of deja-vu."@en
  • "According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big bang? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"@en
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  • "Science fiction"@en
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  • "Timequake"@en
  • "Timequake"

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