The ruthless executive wants to make a killing on the Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash
The naive professor thinks Hitler could be killed
The neo-Nazi wants to save Hitler
The feminist wants to make all men passive
A time transport can be a dangerous thing, especially if you have an axe to grind.
Here is my extract. Please note two things
(1) If contains some items of a sexual nature. The more explicit scenes are NOT in the extract and there is one F word replaced by “****”. You have been warned.
The explicit sexual material in the novel proper is completely necessary for the plot. (And there are WMDs in Iraq) but more seriously it does suit the characters purposes/mood at the time and if it were ever published it might/might not be toned down.
(2) I know this requires serious editing, possibly with a blow torch. Comments welcome. I can take it. I’ll just go back in time and shoot all your grandparents. Oh, I forgot, I can only do that in my story. Back to reality, it is a first draft. There might be further drafts. If not this might be a loss to literature; on the other hand if there are, it might be a terrible waste of good trees. History will tell. Now if only I had a time transport I could collect my royalties before writing it.
Time enough for hate
By Raymond Cuttill
From Page 1 --
"We've done it! We've done it!" exclaimed Professor Ian Swift excitedly, almost jumping up and down.
"Now we can alter time any way we want! History is no longer fixed." he said as Jim Carlton walked into the control room.
From Page 30 –
They arrived at the hotel. As Schuller was collecting the keys from the receptionist they heard
“Good evening, Mr Capone” said the doorman behind them.
They turn to see Al Capone and some men entering the hotel lobby. Al Capone strode right up to Andersen.
From Page 66 –
There was a huge flash. The city of Hiroshima vanished in a ball of fire. That now well-known mushroom cloud began to form.
“Okay”, said Schuller, “You can open the shutters now”
The German officers eagerly did so. Hitler peered out.
“With this weapon, I can rule the world”, He said.
“With two of those bombs, and this Time Plane. I could go back to 1914, and bomb London and Paris. The Third Reich has truly arrived”, He said jubilantly almost bouncing with joy.
From Page 87 –
Neanderthal, she thought. What is he going to do with me? What does he want?
To settle the matter, he let the spear drop to the ground, and threw the animal skin off over his shoulder.
Continued …
In response to any kind of threat the choice was running or fighting, the so-called flight or flight response
Lucy thought that she had the choice of the flight fight or **** response
More from Page 1 --
"A millionth of a second! That's hardly time travel.", said Jim.
Jim looked out of the control room, down at the cargo hold of the massive Boeing 858, the only cargo aircraft in the world that could handle the time transport.
The time transport considered two main components both for which were mounted on the floor of the cargo deck, and nearly filled it to the ceiling.
There were several people swarming around the electromagnetic gravitational generator, affectionately known as the EGG although it was perfectly round. It was a huge ball of superconductive coils supplied with liquid helium in the platform that the ball rested on. This generated a gravitational field, which when manipulated in the right way created time travel. The trick was to manipulate the gravity waves, so they didn't crash the entire plane in everything in it but at the same time, did create, time travel
Beyond it was the nuclear reactor of a kind often used in nuclear submarines. Small but powerful it supplied the electro gravitational generator with the necessary power. Essentially a cube several yards on each side. For the most part, it did its job, and just sat there and hummed.
All this fitted just in the cargo hold of the Boeing 858, which had the advantage of vertical takeoff and landing, very handy if you visit the past, where there are no runways.
From Page 34 —
"This grandfather paradox doesn't exist. What it turns out, is that if you alter time then you alter time. Whatever you do by travelling back in time that affects your grandfather, that action affects your grandfather. FULL STOP. It does not affect you in that sense. In other words, you can't shoot your grandfather, and then you disappear because he is dead, and you can't have been born. The fact is, he is dead, and you weren’t born but you exist, because you came back in a time transport from a time stream where you were born but that time stream no longer exists. Only one actual time stream exists. The time stream that now exists is a one-way your grandfather was shot and you weren't born. If you go back to the present. You will find you did not exist; nothing you did has happened; you do not have a job, someone else may have that job; you do not have a wife, someone else, may have married her. And that assumes that very little has changed from shooting your grandfather. Who knows what he may have influenced or affected himself or his children, your parent all your aunts and uncles or any of your cousins."
Continued…
"Oh, come on, Professor. You're being melodramatic.", said Parker jeeringly,"Perhaps your wrong. If I go back and meet myself and because two of us can't exist in the same time there some kind of catastrophe like a nuclear explosion or whatever "
"Now that doesn't happen. You been reading too many science fiction stories. If you travel in time what you do is move a set of molecules, yourself for example, to another time, which they existed before. You do not alter history or anything else, in any other way. The problem is what you do when you get there. If you then do something which could be is trivial as bumping into someone it could in some small way affect their life; their lives could affect thousands of other people's lives, and in some way perhaps ultimately affect you or at least the you that originally left on the time journey."
Continued…
The Professor then went into lecture mode, "Every molecule in the universe has its own timestream. Therefore if you pick a molecule in this table, it is there now. It was there a second ago. And it will be there a second from now. And they each have in some sense their own separate existence, separated by time. Now if you take that table and transporting it through time and back to a second ago, there is another table there. It is the table that was there a second ago. It's the same table but it is from the second earlier. You have made the table travel through time, so the two tables normally separated by time, can now exist in the same time as two separate tables, and therefore potentially can collide with each other. It would be two tables colliding together, as some speed, rather like a car crash. Therefore, in order to ensure the table, the time transport and the plane and everything else in it do not collide with itself, we make sure that we're moving away from where we were at all times. The thing is we can't just travel through time and say I'll avoid the obstacles when I see them, because we can't see them. In other words, if I moved to the future, or even if I moved to the past, I don't know what was there, one second ago or even one day ago, for sure. Now let's say you made a movie about time travel, and you fitted a time transport in a car, say, one of those antique DeLorean cars, and you drove it in a car park. As you transported back into the past, if there was a car parked in the car park yesterday you would collide with it on your way back to a hundred years ago. You simply can't say I'll drive back to a hundred years ago, and simply arrive there. You drive through all the previous car parks on your way. Potentially, you could collide with every car that has been in the car park since it's been built, and you can't see it and you arrive back at the time and it was parked. In other words, we’re potentially flying blind into the past or into the future and we could fly in the something that was all will be there and we can't tell until we hit it. Hence the use of a plane and carefully calculated routes, so that we don't firstly collide with ourselves, and if possible don’t collide with anything else. “
Continued…
"In some ways it's like Chaos Theory. Sometimes in Chaos Theory, a butterfly could flap its wings and cause a storm a 1000 miles away. Because at that time the entire weather system is on a knife edge, and it can tip either way. Imagine for example, if you went into the past, and eat an apple, you’d think it wouldn't make much difference. Perhaps, perhaps not. Perhaps nobody will know we have one more or less apple is eaten in the past. On the other hand, let's suppose you eat the apple that that very day was going to fall on Newton's head and give him the idea of the gravity. Perhaps he doesn't get the idea, or perhaps not that way, or at that time. So already, time has been altered. Maybe somebody else gets the idea first. Maybe somebody gets a completely different but plausible idea. But there interpretation or mathematics is done in a completely different way. This could alter completely our understanding of gravity. It's like playing we dynamite and saying, I hope this doesn't go off. Most of the time, you could be right. It won't go off. But you only have to be wrong once. There are all sorts of potential complications, for example, most of as a caring various microbes, viruses and bacteria from the future. Quite a lot of these have evolved since the time we're currently in.”
Continued…
That's just one of the things we've got to think about. A complete policy of non-interference. Not even accidental interference."
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