“To
adjust the course of a battle here, to assassinate some tin-pot figure there …
If you have such a tool as a Chronic-Displacement Vehicle, and if you know that
History can be changed, as we do, then would you, should you, restrict yourself to such footling goals as that? Why restrict yourself to a few decades, and
to fiddling with the boyhood of Bismarck or the Kaiser, when you can go back
millions of years – as we have? Now, our
children have fifty million years to
remake the world … We’re even going to rebuild the human species – aren’t we?”
(from The Time
Ships by Stephen Baxter)
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