I had the great pleasure of reading the following post by James Wymore over on Will Macmillan Jones’s blog yesterday, shared as part of a book tour celebrating the release of Forbidden Future: A Time Travel Anthology. The link there will take you to Amazon, where you can read more about the book. It sounds fascinating, and at $.99 (for a limited time only), is a real bargain.
Anyway, I liked James’s post so much that I emailed him for permission to repost it here. He was kind enough to grant my request, so without further ado, here ’tis:
Few fiction tropes have been delved into so deeply and so frequently as time travel. Even if only as a thought experiment, I’ve never met somebody who didn’t speculate on how drastically one small difference in the past could change the present. To be human is to enjoy 20/20 hindsight. We seldom know the full consequences of the choices we make now, but we can always point to the critical moments in the past. Just a nudge. One small word, whispered in an ear at the right moment, and the entire future unfolds differently.
Suddenly they all died. The end. 