So the ideas that are on display here are not new, but Tchaikovsky puts his own spin and speculations on the premise of how a Time War would look, and most importantly for the point of the novella, how would someone “win” such a Time War, and what would happen afterwards. And guarding time is something that Marvel comics has done with Kang turned Immortus. Time travel is as old as H G Wells (and there is lovely leitmotif to his time machine) and Time Travel Wars as mentioned above go to Jack Williamson.
This is the story of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novella One Day All of This Will be Yours.
And when Zoe, the woman who is supposedly going to be the Eve to his Adam shows up, that’s when things get *real* interesting. It is when people from the future, a future which should not exist, come back and call him the founder of their new civilization that there is real trouble. Sure, he has to deal with any time travelers who make it to his era, to avoid more problems with casualty and time travel, but he’s a veteran, a survivor, a hero, even and can deal with anyone who shows up with a new method of time travel, and then for good measure, keep that society from making more time travel by changing that fragment of history. He’s the survivor of the Casualty Wars, wars across time and space in the grand old tradition going back to Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time. A beautiful farm, lovely weather, solitude, peace, a pet Allosaur named Miffly.
Well, he has a good life, anyway for all that he has that problem.
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