Rob Wolf

Definitely. I wish I could have read a book like this when I was a kid. I read tons of science fiction growing up but never encountered someone like Claude--a cool kid who just happened to be gay. I came out in high school but it took a long time for me to feel proud and comfortable. Maybe if I'd had more role models, even in literature, I'd have had an easier time. So yes, I definitely plan to include gay characters in all my books.

The classic argument against the possibility of time travel is the time paradox, which goes: if you travel to the past, you might do something to interfere with your birth (for instance, kill your parents)--which means it's impossible to travel to the past.

In the two Khronos Chronicles novels, I explore the idea of endlessly branching alternate universes as a solution to the time paradox. If time travel means you travel to an alternate past, then you can do whatever you want--i.e., you could kill your parents because they're not your actual parents but alternate parents. Your alternate self might not be born but you can continue on your merry, patricidal, time-traveling way.