Time Travel discussion

We have a giveaway! Ten lucky winners will be chosen by the author. Giveaway end January 6th.


Saving Harry Truman by Steven R. Burt

Seventeen-year-old RICK BROWN vanished in 1948, victim of a horrific explosion that took the life of President Harry S Truman during a whistle-stop campaign speech in Salt Lake City. Sixteen years later, while tinkering with a broken desktop radio in his rented apartment, his still-grieving younger brother, FRANK accidentally discovers time travel.
Intrigued by both wealth and revenge possibilities, Frank learns to control the newfound device, but exposes his closest friends to danger at every turn, including CONNIE, the waitress he adores but met too late. Pursued by sleeper agents from a future where time travel is government business and tightly controlled, Frank narrowly escapes into the past and forever changes both their histories and ours. While Rick, it turns out, kept secrets of his own.

This will be an ebook (either Kindle or mobi for non US winners). Winners will need to PM an email address to the author to receive your copy.

In order to enter the giveaway:

1) add the book to your “want to read” shelf
2) answer the following question:

Sometimes bad decisions are made at a proverbial "fork in the road," which results in unending regrets or an unsatisfactory life. But what problem(s) in a person's life cannot be solved by traveling back in time?

A genetically induced disease.

The worry about what your cHoices will result in

Not pursuing a relationship that shows promise.

Relationships that have ended or been damaged irreparably. While it might be possible to change the events that led to the breakdown of the relationship, it is unlikely that the relationship could be fully repaired if there is a fundamental lack of trust or compatibility.

Being a victim of someone else's bad choices. You can travel back as much as you like but trying to change someone else to fix your life is not an effective strategy.

Depending on time travel to "repair" a person who is incorrigibly evil and is out to destroy your life.

Genetics

You cannot repair the past!

A natural disaster that’s unavoidable, like an earthquake or meteor. You could change where you or someone else is located at the time of the event, but if it’s big enough, it wouldn’t matter. And if you wanted to save a building or a group of people, that’s really not going to happen.

Character Flaws 😊

(UK Based)

Miscarriage of baby/stillborn

You're own character flaws. No matter where you go, there you are.

Unable to add book. When I try I keep receiving an error.

Brenda wrote: "Unable to add book. When I try I keep receiving an error."

Did you try changing editions to see if the other addition lets you add it?

Aging!

Going to sea in the Royal Navy or miking cows in the Highlands of Scotland. The consequences would affect the lives of the next five generations.

future problems

Wow, so many great answers! I'm glad to see this fruitful question!

Integrity

Traveling back in time won’t allow you to fix a problem in your life that you haven’t learned from.

Traveling back in time probably can't fix emotional abuse suffered as a child from a parent(s). There typically is not one defining moment or incident of hurt/pain that can be corrected. Even if the parent(s) were "removed" from the situation before those abuses began, the substituted emotions might just end up being loneliness and abandonment for that child.

(this would make for a very sad story that I don't think I could read...)

Mistakes that were made.

Your parents.

Ingvild wrote: "Your parents."

That’s a good one!

Attempted change to any aspect of "Self" would result in "Not Self."

Entropy. The world is dying and going into the past is not going to change that.

Jen wrote: "Attempted change to any aspect of "Self" would result in "Not Self.""

ooh... intriguing... do you know any time travel novel that deals with that?

Nancy wrote: "We have a giveaway! Ten lucky winners will be chosen by the author. Giveaway end January 6th.


Saving Harry Truman by [author:Steven R. Burt..."

Baldness!

disease caused by exposure to temporal anomalies

Ooh, yes, Mike. I've seen that explored in a few stories - do you remember which?

Thanks to all for your thought provoking answers. The following have been chosen to receive a free copy of the eBook, Saving Harry Truman.
Answer 3: Karlie
Answer 5: Dennis
Answer 11: Adrian
Answer 13: Jo Burl
Answer 16: Debra
Answer 18: Kaj
Answer 21: Charles
Answer 22: Pat
Answer 26: Jen
Answer 29: Matthew
Winners must contact me either here, or privately through my website www.stevenrburt.com, so that I can send you the redemption instructions for the eBook via Amazon. If you don't have a US email address, send me what you use and I'll find the best way to send an electronic copy.
I hope you will all enjoy reading the story and would appreciate seeing your comments and thoughts.
Cheers to all.

Congrats to the winners! Don’t forget to contact Steven on his website with an email address. Make sure to let him know if you are not in the US since the Amazon code won’t work for you.

How thrilling to have won. I just noticed my answer was similar to someone else's, but I didn't do that on purpose.

A couple of you have not contacted me yet regarding the link for the free copy of Saving Harry Truman. If you can send me something by 6:00 am MST tomorrow morning I'll arrange a link for you to get the eBook, otherwise I'll be traveling out of internet coverage until the 18th. Drop me a line between tomorrow and then and I'll send your copy when I return.

Jo wrote: "How thrilling to have won. I just noticed my answer was similar to someone else's, but I didn't do that on purpose."

Our answers were very similar Jo, but both good obviously !!

Steven wrote: "A couple of you have not contacted me yet regarding the link for the free copy of Saving Harry Truman. If you can send me something by 6:00 am MST tomorrow morning I'll arrange a link for you to ge..."

Hi Steven, I have only just noticed I have been chosen and so I have DMed you. Don't worry about any delay . Adrian

Congrats to the winners!

In message 32 I listed the winners of the free ebook. Three of you have not responded and cannot be messaged directly. I'd like to get copies into the hands of interested readers. Please read message 32 or respond to this thread that you'd like a copy. Cheers!

They might be stuck in a different time line and can't see this post;)

HaHa! Well, without a response soon they’ll be up for grabs to someone who’ll read it.

Preventing certain incurable future diseases.

It's very easy, folks, to not realize that your settings are such that people like Steven cannot message you. If you are interested in receiving his book, change your GR settings at least temporarily, or please PM him.

Steven, I see that it's been almost a month. You might want to go ahead and have a fresh draw in just a few days.

I still have three unclaimed copies of Saving Harry Truman available from last month. I'll send a copy to the next three people who contact me by private message with an email address to send it to.

Only one left!

I'm not smart enough to figure out how to send a private message for a copy.

Lizz wrote: "I'm not smart enough to figure out how to send a private message for a copy."

Click on the person’s name and it takes you to their profile and you can send a m from there. Next to ‘follow author’ is a little arrow pointing down. Click on that and options come up. One is to send a message.

All the books are out now, thankyou. Lizz did figure it out.