Time paradoxes

Could I go back in time and kill my grandfather?

This is considered to be the classic time paradox. If you kill your grandfather at an early age then your father will not be born and neither will you. That means you cannot go back in time and kill him.

In fact you can go back in time and kill the person who aught to be your grandfather. Except the instant you do so that person is no longer your grandfather. What you have done is to create an alternate 'timeverse'. That means when you try to return to your own timeverse it no longer exists. You don't belong in the new version. TACO was set up to prevent the creation of these alternate timeverses.

You'll find more information on time paradoxes in the third (and fourth) story.

It was a dark and stormy night - Ripping Time

Introducing TACO - the Time Anti-Chronoclasm Organisation

How I first met Alex Pearin, the time traveller; also known as 'Jack the Ripper'.

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It was another dark and stormy night - Witch Time

Introducing BELL - whatever that stands for

How I made my first time travel trip to rescue the Blair witch.

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It wasn't a dark and stormy night - Titanic Time

Paradoxically - a tiny change can both kill and save lives

My second time travel trip; to make sure the Titanic sank!

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It wasn't a dark and stormy night - Time Flies

Leonardo da Vinci invented a flying machine but the world wasn't ready for those.

My third time travel trip; to make sure he didn't become the world's first aeronaut

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What Next?

I'm working on a new short story - Play Time.
Alex and I travel back to 1593 to persuade Shakespear that it would be a very bad idea for Sir Walter Raleigh to evade Queen Elizabeth I's wrath by shipping out to Virginia.

'Shakespear'? Shouldn't that be 'Shakespeare'?
Believe it or not there are seven known signatures of Shakespeare but none of them have that spelling.