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It's weird that the lack of portable phones requires more suspension of disbelief than time travel. Maybe that's a testament to the writer. In Doomsday Book there are a few plot points where even an answering machine would have helped.

Excellent books though, despite that.




It's not weird at all. If you have the technology to move your physical being between time periods, you can certainly move a few radio waves around.




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