“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.”

— William Gibson , Jackpot trilogy

Jackpot trilogy, The Peripheral (2014)
Source: Epigraph, taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

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