Harry Adam Knight

I know the difference between ancestors and descendants. Of course I do.  One's the one thing and the other's the other. But the occasional brainphart means I type the wrong one now and again. And possibly again. I wrote a time travel story once about a humanitarian scientist who did this and ended up killing Hitler's grandchildren. Obviously it turned out that he was one of them.  It didn't end well, then, not least because I never sold the story and the magazine went bust. I like to think the two things were connected but I suspect I wouldn't have sold the story even to a successful magazine.

It's never easy coming up with a new way of travelling in time and I didn't bother because it wasn't important.  But a while back I came up with a cunning new means of time travel involving toothpaste and I sent it to Colgate-Palmolive.  As you do.  One of my offers of product placement in a novel in return for a charitable donation.

The mean bastards never replied. And I mean bastards.

Maybe I should have offered them my idea of chocolates filled with toothpaste to solve the problem of tooth decay at source. Too late now.