The idea of Paradox and traveling through time is very haunting to me. It creates a sense of erie feelings because of the delicate way that simple things will change history. In the story "Sound of Thunder", that feeling comes over you when you look at the differences between before and after the trip. The simple act of steppin on the butterfly changed the course of history, and its leaders.
Into the Universe also gave the example of Paradox because it is about a man imagining how to make time travel possible. He gave examples as to why going back into the past is not possible, but it could be by going into the future. I don't think that people will come up with that technology to travel at light speed, but even if they could, should they? I don't think people are meant to travel in time, but rather, to stay the course.
In "All You Zombies" we see a very confusing story about a man that can only exist by traveling into the past. He sees all of his past and future selves in front of him as different people, genders, and ages. This is an example of paradox because he sees them all as Zombies...something that once lived in a different time, of rather in a different life. They are Zombies to him because although he sees himself, it is not himself at the present, but rather, a mere shadow of what he was in a time.
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