| Although paleontology plays a large role in the novel, Swanwick seems to be more concerned with cause-and-effect, paradoxes, and predeterminism. |
| Therefore, yes, genetics brings a sort of new preformation or more accurately predeterminism. |
| For all the manipulation of history which occurs in The Plot to Save Socrates, the characters all have a strong sense of predeterminism. |
| It almost appears as if his story's rejection of faith is also, ironically, an espousal of predeterminism. |
| Mostly done through two talking heads, a Professor and one of his students, the piece examines the issues concerning not only time travel, but also predeterminism. |
| The pendulum has now swung back following years of predeterminism and surgical nihilism. |
