I Hate Time Travellers

by Lee J Isserow

Release: March 2016
Format: Novella
Genres: Science Fiction, Comedy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Turns out the Luke is one of the few people on Earth who didn’t get involuntarily evolved into a time traveler.

— Michael Main

All of them except Luke Denton and around a thousand other souls who’d been left behind whilst the rest of the human race were evolved against their will, by a force conspiracy theorists around the world had put down to anything from governmental to extra terrestrial tinkering.

DEBUT

I Hate Time Travellers (ABAM.info, March 2016) [audio reading].

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099

Timeline Models

Time Barrier: no travel to before T-Day

Time Travel Methods

Innate Time Travelers: most humans were forcibly evolved into time travelers

Themes

Causal Loops: Many causal loops, such as Ella telling Luke to ask her out, which causes him to do so, which causes her to tell him to ask her out, which . . .
Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: The lottery had changed significantly since T-Day.”
Rescue after the Fact: Ian comes to the rescue.
Self-Visitation
Sex with Self: Pretty much everybody does it all the time.
Technology and Science from the Future: travellers also brought goods from the future
Time Cabal: the black suits

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From various times and places at an unknown time ⋙ to to other times and places, but no earlier than 22 January 2005 at an unknown time. Note: We did not keep track of all the jumps, but Luke’s first jump was one month after he had sex with .

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Title—The main title on the US <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FI-Hate-Time-Travelers%2Fdp%2FB01DF8AM6A%2F'>Amazon</a> page and the running title on the Kindle edition both use the spelling “Travelers.”
Release—<a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FI-Hate-Time-Travelers%2Fdp%2FB01DF8AM6A%2F'>Amazon</a> lists <samp>Author’s Republic</samp> as the publisher, but the audiobook itself gives the publisher as ABAM.info. Amazon lists the release date of the audio as <samp>28 March 2016</samp>, while the Kindle release is listed as a week later on <samp>4 April 2016</samp>.