Tag: time travel
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Silo Season 3 and the Cost of Erasing a Memory
Silo season 3 asks whether erasing 10,000 memories counts as mercy. I spent a whole novel on that same question, and I’m still not done with it.
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Beyond Fixed Fates: What Turn of Earth Taught Me About Choice, Legacy, and Love
Turn of Earth wrestles with fixed fates, legacy, and love across time. Here’s what writing it taught me about choice, aging, and the stories we leave behind.
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Fiction, Fact, and Fallout: The Story Behind a Biological Weapons Plot Point
Back in the mid-90s, when I was first writing Access, my “research process” didn’t look anything like it does today. The World Wide Web was barely more than a curiosity—maybe 500 pages total if you believed the jokes at the time—and I was still prowling electronic bulletin boards in the middle of the night, looking…
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When Government Conspiracy Research Walks the Line Between Fiction and Fear
In the earliest drafts of Access, I filled the pages with scraps of research scavenged from late-night dives into electronic bulletin boards and obscure government documents. This was the mid-90s, when the “information superhighway” was more like a gravel road, and part of the fun was seeing what strange, unsettling things you could turn up…
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If I Could Go Back in Time: What Older Me Would Tell Younger Me
If I could time travel back to my young adulthood and offer up the most important advice possible to make the intervening years oh-so-much-easier to bear, what would I tell Young Lorna? I’ve blown off the question more times than I can count. That’s because, until now, I’ve looked at the question from this side…
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Movie Thoughts: PREMONITION
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I finally saw Sandra Bullock’s Premonition last night. The girls and I had wanted to see the movie ever since we saw the trailer. It looked like it had all the stuff I love—suspense, a little bit of time travel, fighting the forces…
