Norine Luker asked Jodi Taylor:

Well, just finished Catalogue of Catastrophe, and as is usual with St. Mary's I feel like I just got off an out of control roller coaster. While I line up in the queue for the next one, can you explain, (probably again), what keeps a future someone from telling a past someone how they will die or what will happen to them?

Jodi Taylor Hi there. Physically, absolutely nothing would prevent someone rocking up to St Mary's and saying to Max, 'You die on 12th August in a freak accident involving shoe laces and a bicycle pump. Everything goes wrong after that and the world ends in blood and fire three days later.' Except that, as a writer, that's too easy. I didn't want people turning up from the future shouting, 'Don't walk through that door.' For the same reason, I don't think there's any particular physical reason why you couldn't be in the same time twice. Except that then the goto answer for anything that went wrong would be to go back and have another go. So I invented what I freely admit are quite arbitrary rules. And - to inject a gruesome note - who actually wants to know how and when they're going to die?
Hope this answers your question.

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