At Lydia’s second time at the Time Travel Club, she tells them of her pirate activities in the past and her solar sail demolition races in the future, which is all well and good until the outlandish Madame Alberta shows up and asks them all to help her with ethical questions of building a real time machine, not to mention figuring out a rather strange use for the thing.
They already have warrantless wiretaps and indefinite detention. Imagine if they could go back in time and spy on you in the past. Or kill people as little children.

Variants

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  1. “The Time Travel Club” by Charlie Jane Anders, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2013.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Charlie Jane Anders