![]() “I am saving the unseen future from interference. But to keep the future from being as destructive as the past, he has to stop all time travellers right here. He gets to enjoy his own utopia as reward for his service in the Causality War, which, of course, wiped out all the past, so he stands at that endless moment where old time stops and future time is about to get going again. ![]() There is a handle-bar mustachioed steam-punk inventor from 1911 and a trio of ancient Greek philosophers with nothing but a diagram and their intuition. With a theme resembling Asimov’s End of Eternity and a touch of the ghastly amoral humor of Ian Banks’ The Wasp Factory, the nameless narrator joyfully recounts bumping off one visitor after another from earlier times. So where can a writer take you from a premise like that? For the umpteenth time, Tchaikovsky proves in One Day All This Will Be Yours how deep his dramatic imagination runs. No more of that! He’s created a perfect place of fruitful farm fields, tended by robots, guarded by himself and his pet Allosaurus, and he intends to keep the population to exactly one. ![]() ![]() He’s a veteran of the wars of total destruction, including the last and worst, the Causality War and the weapons that destroyed time and causality, blasting them into fragments. ![]()
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