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'Basically if a chrononaut moves only through time and remains fixed spatially, then because planet Earth moves through space when the chrononaut arrives, the Earth won’t be there and our chrononaut will die in the vacuum of space.' (Publication abstract)
'It’s our first date. He’s treated me to a movie in an old run-down theatre with velvet mothball drapes, and stained carpet. He pays for my upsized frozen Coke, walks behind me with his hand on the small of my back, and strokes the top of my thumb as the credits begin to roll. Then I look up at the screen and frown. I wasn’t expecting the opening scene to the ‘surprise movie’ to show a scantily clad woman with breast implants being impaled by a javelin-wielding, hockey-mask wearing psycho killer.' (Publication abstract)