one day all this will be yours by adrian tchaikovsky

I don’t want to give away any of the delightful little surprises, but trust me - you’ll want to experience the main character’s pillaging of the past for entertainment and farming supplies, his ruthless yet “nothing personal” approach to dealing with unwanted visitors, and his training of trusty sidekick Miffly. It’s all very circular and paradoxical and made my head spin round quite a bit, but this book is oh-so-much fun to read. And once one set of people with a time machine realize its potential and actually use it, so does everyone else. Sooner or later, you preemptively deploy your deterrent just in case the other side aren’t deterred by it.ĭon’t trust your adversaries? Go back in time and wipe out the pieces of their history that made them a threat in the first place. Our unnamed narrator is the sole survivor of the Causality War, in which too many competing factions realized that the ultimate weapon isn’t a nuke - it’s a time machine.Īnd then they used them, because that’s what you always do with the ultimate weapons that you swear you’ll never, ever use.

Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.Ī totally trippy take on time travel and the end of the world.

Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could. We were time warriors, and we broke time. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were that’s sort of the point.

Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky – a smart, funny tale of time-travel and paradox

One day all this will be yours by adrian tchaikovsky