Just One Damned Thing after Another
- by Jodi Taylor
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Just One Damned Thing after Another by Jodi Taylor (Accent Press, June 2013).
Fresh from finishing her Ph.D., Madeline Maxwell (aka Max) runs into her high school mentor who encourages her to apply for a position with a cloistered group of historians called St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research.
—Michael Main
Think of History as a living organism, with its own defence mechanisms. History will not permit anything to change events that have already taken place. If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus. Or historian, as we like to call them.
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): the Cretaceous
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): the Library at Alexandria and the Chief’s secret hideaway
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): 11th century Westminster Abbey
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: World War I
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: the present day
- Unspecified Year: Max’s test run
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Habitats: the pods
- Themes
- Antiques or Ancient Artifacts for Fun and Profit: the scrolls from the Library at Alexandria
- Causal Loops: The Chief knows that the bad guys are going to get TB2, so he arranges for them to get it under his own terms.
- Changewars: We’re not sure that anyone ever actually changes anything, but there are certainly time wars.
- Chronology Protection Conjecture: If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus.
- Ex Nihilo Obects and People: A small ex-nihilo paradox: “So the Boss brings a pod from the future to now. And that pod is the template for all future pods?”
- Time Corps: St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research
- Time Travel Agencies, Safaris, and Tourists: “Someone started shooting. Someone else shot back and then trigger-happy tourists were letting off at everything in sight including each other.”
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- Just One Damned Thing after Another by Jodi Taylor (Accent Press, June 2013).