Like this movie.
Don’t forget the fisticuffs. No man-date with Ernest Hemingway is complete without somebody getting punched.
I would really like to see what street food was like in Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt while exploring the major cities of each civilization.
Also, I would like to observe the Tunguska Explosion (from a safe distance, of course).
That’s the plot of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. Karl goes back to witness the death of Christ and ends up getting crucified as Christ.
Skara Brae about 5,000 years ago
Leonardo’s studio around 1503-06, just as he says “more enigmatic”
I’d travel to the Mediterranean coast during the late bronze age collapse to figure out who the “Sea Peoples” were
Stephen Hawking doesn’t realize that in the future his theories have been abandoned and his legacy destroyed. All the time travellers are meeting up at the bookstore across the road instead.
Paris, 1929. Hemingway vs Morley Callaghan. F. Scott Fitzgerald is the timekeeper.
Hyper-masculine Ernest gets knocked flat.
Rookie mistakes, rookie mistakes everywhere…
If you are serious about temporal engineering you don’t take out the main character, so to speak, because that never works as intended.
What you do is take out a dozen or so of the enablers, spread over a couple of years.
And drunk… on a boat.
In 1816, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft (later to be Shelley) and Percy Bysshe Shelley spent the summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori in Switzerland, where they entertained each other by telling scary stories in the evening, and it’s where she wrote (started writing?) “Frankenstein”.
Oh, to be a holograph there, for as long as the machine allowed!
Problems do not always die with their host organism.
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