The Inevitable Apocalyptic Consequence of Time Travel

by Paul R. Hardy

Celtic Britain in the year 72. The Abbasid Caliphate in the year 803. The Empire of Japan in the year 1940. The Republic of India in the year 2025.

Time travel isn’t discovered once. It happens four times in human history. And every time, it is used as a weapon of war: to spy on the enemy, to predict their plans, to sabotage their strategy – or to send assassins to kill their leaders before they can act.

But in every instance, the final act of escalation is against the person who discovered time travel in the first place. They will be aided by those who will benefit from the invention – and attacked by those who will suffer.

Sooner or later, the outcome will be inevitable…

A novella of 19,000 words.

APOCALYPTIC TALES is a series of shorts and novellas about the end of the world. Because somewhere in the multiverse, a world is always ending…

69 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 27, 2015

About the author

Paul Hardy makes corporate videos for a living, and relaxes by writing novels when no one's watching. In the past, he made eighteen short films, won a BBC Drama Award, co-wrote & co-produced an independent SF film called Triple Hit and also wrote Filming on a Microbudget, a guidebook for making short films.

Reviews

[Joseph Torres · Rating 5 out of 5]

Time Displacement

This is a perfect example of time displacement. Would you go back and change the future if you can? I re