Where are we going? The future, Doc! Great Scott! Not forgetting the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey past. That's right, ticket holders, this book is your journey into the many worlds of the time travel tale - exploring its tropes, its rules, its devices, its science, its values, its plots, its characters and, most importantly, its enduring - and timeless - appeal.

Steve Nallon is a writer, voice artist, actor and occasional academic and lecturer. Steve's acting and voice artist work ranges from theatre, film and television, to video games, puppetry and audio books. As a playwright and comedy writer, Steve has a considerable body of credits to his name, including plays and series for BBC radio, three one-man theatre shows, plus the satirical book I, Margaret, which he co-wrote with the novelist Tom Holt. The Time That Never Was (2022) and The Time They Saved Tomorrow (2024), parts one and two in Steve's Time Adventure book series THE SWIDGERS, have been published by Luath Press. Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories, published by Scratching Shed, was released in 2024. For most of the 1990s Steve was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where his specialist areas of study were story theory, stand-up comedy and Greek theatre, and he continues to teach and offer workshops on a freelance basis. Over the years, Steve has contributed to numerous periodicals such as The New Statesman, Classic Monsters and Musical Stages, and is a much sought after speaker on the lecture circuit for his insightful and amusing talks across a wide range of subjects.