If Time Travellers existed, who would they be?

[Masada]

It's a fantastic book, and only around 180 pages. I'd recommend it to anyone. You have to be careful though, as Verne's son extensively re-wrote and published the original story, apparently not knowing his father had finished it but not published it before he died, and Michael's version, while not a bad read, is nowhere near as good as Jules', which is one of the best books I've ever read. Michael's is much larger than Jules', so you can tell the difference that way.

I shall be buying it in my next order of books, I've always enjoyed Vernes works.

 

[Sharwood]

I shall be buying it in my next order of books, I've always enjoyed Vernes works.

Try getting it from a university bookshop, since it's relatively newly published - Jules' version was only publicly released in 2002, IIRC - many literature courses have picked it up, and they tend to sell them cheaper than usual. Where I got mine.

 

[W|M]

Jules Verne was definitely a time-traveller then...

 

[JonathanStrange]

Is a time-traveler.

 

[Mowque]

will be a time-traveler

 

[Leonel]

They'd go back in time to stop the Nazis from starting WWII, but in a weird twist of fate, they'd actually become the Nazis and cause it themselves!

Or a holocaust survivor time travels back and tries to get Hitler to kill himself but instead Hitler develops a deep hatred for Jews from the experience.

 

[Sharwood]

I'm thinking that people discovered that things would be even worse if Hitler died, so they go back in time to stop the assassinations from working. Especially ones that involve merely shaking hands.

 

[civiijkw]

Or a holocaust survivor time travels back and tries to get Hitler to kill himself but instead Hitler develops a deep hatred for Jews from the experience.

Existing short story - forgot the author.

 

[Tee Kay]

"Time travel and Hitlers are always a bad combination."
- Andrew Farago, The Chronicles of William Bazillion

 

[_random_]

I suspect Langston Hughes may have been a time traveler. Not because of his poetry, but because a guy in my karate class looks just like him. It's really freaking uncanny.

 

[choxorn]

Barack Obama is a time traveller.

 

[W|M]

Nostradamus Is A Time Traveller!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sharwood]

Nostradamus Is A Time Traveller!!!!!!!!!!!!

I discredited that one on the first page.

 

[W|M]

I never read all of the first page...Oh, and I agree that Nostradamus never really predicted anything.

 

[vogtmurr]

I can easily imagine a time-traveler who merely observed, bought first-edition mint condition comic books, coins, books, etc. and then traveled back to his antiques shoppe where there and on Ebay, I ... er, he makes a good living.

Can I put in an order for some postage stamps ?

 

[Luckymoose]

Einstein was one, he was a moronic child and just stole a bunch of paperwork from the future.

 

[citedon]

How about Martin Luther? The history of Europe sure took a 90 deg. turn as a result of his actions. As a time traveller, I don't know what his motives would have been. Perhaps he would have been trying to destroy the Roman Catholic Church and saw this as a time when they were vulnerable. Just a thought.

 

[citedon]

Of course I don't believe that the real Martin Luther was trying to destroy the Church, just fix some problems.

 

[W|M]

Someone should fix the church NOW. It's way too old-fashioned and boring...

 

[eastsidebagel]

Someone should fix the church NOW. It's way too old-fashioned and boring...

Oh boy, don't ever come too close to OT these days...