I had not realised how important the Time Traveler’s visits had become in my pleasant,
prosperous, humdrum existence.
I liked these last two stories, especially the character of Haru, but I longed for more development beyond what Sandy had already shown us of their common universe.
Knowledge, absolute and definite knowledge of the future as it affects yourself, is never
any use. Whether it is bad or good, you cannot do anything that will change it. It simply
takes away your power to decide.
If the Time Traveller sold his wares directly from the maker, modern tests would show
that they are only a few years old. They are stored in an underground cavern somewhere in
the Pliocene to rack up the appropriate number of centuries, so that tests for
thermoluminescence and cosmic ray tracks give the right answer.