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I don’t mind time travel if it’s done well and truly has it thought out. One of the things that bugs me is people are always warned that you can’t change the past, you can only learn from it, and if you mess with the past it could have serious repercussions and either they’ll go back and change things even when they were told they couldn’t, or they’ll do things that should have had affect on the future and don’t.

And it all depends too on how the author treats that person. When he time travels, has his body moved out of the present and into the past, or does he now have two bodies, in a way, and could meet his younger self on the street? Or when he’s in the past does he go to his younger body? Does he go back to being a ‘character’ in life or is he an extra person, an observer?

Mostly all the picky things mean that it has to be really, really well done for me to like it. I enjoyed the second Griffin Sharpe book, The Future Door, mainly because it the time machine was a tea-pot. Also the Nick of Time books, which combine time travel, Nazis, and pirates. Hello, how more awesome can you get?