Goodreads asked Damian Knight:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Damian Knight I had the initial idea for The Pages of Time after reading The End of Time by British physicist Julian Barbour. According to Barbour, we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it. He argues that each individual moment of time exists as complete and whole in its own right – “nows” – and that what we experience as the passage of time is, in fact, an illusion: the linking together of these distinct nows by their similarity to one another. This notion led me to wonder what would happen if someone were to suffer a disorder which affected the way they link these similar nows together, jumbling their experience of the passage of time, which gave me the idea of Sam’s brain injury in The Pages of Time. Everything else sort of followed from there!

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