Time travel books that don't work out

[Andy_L]

The Western Empire has fallen but the culture and learning hasn’t been destroyed yet by the attempts of the Eastern Empire to reclaim Italy, and that’s what Padway wants to prevent

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Vienna, Austria.

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Vienna 1913 - Home of the Dictators who Shaped the 20th Century | The Vintage...

[CalMeacham]

@dtilque

As I recall, Padway actually falls through a time warp (no time machine in that book) to a period somewhat after the fall of the West Roman Empire. The Ostrogoths are ruling Italy when he gets there, which is in the 6th century IIRC. So no saving the Roman Empire.

Padway thought he was saving the Roman Empire (and the people there still thought of it as Rome). Otherwise the title doesn’t really make any sense.

[CalMeacham]

@Just_Asking_Questions

He also made a novel called The Proteus Operation that is about time travel and changing the past but they realize they are just going into alternate timelines and they can’t change anything.

One thing I love about The Proteus Operation is that Hogan approached all the people still alive that appear in his book (like Isaac Asimov) and got their permission to use them as characters.