Speculiction states: Rather than producing a mere paper exercise, David Gerrold takes all the aspects of time travel—grandfather paradoxes, multiple selves, alternate realities, beginnings and ends of time, redoing regrettable decisions—and expands them into a revelatory experience that begins with the personal and ends with the universal. Part "bildingsroman" and part recognition of the human condition, "The Man Who Folded Himself" is a fine example of when the genre is on point it can do things and say things that achieve literary fiction.