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Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled back in time to close the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place.

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

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Margaret Atwood used real life events and history in The Handmaid's Tale. She didn't invent it or make it up, she used inspiration from events that already happened or were happening while she wrote the book. You are just seeing what happened in history, in the past, happen again in the present.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-testaments-real-life-inspiration

Sadly, the only viable timeline is the one without time travel because if time travel exists horrific things in our past would have been prevented.
- I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.
  Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they've created a new timeline. It's both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they'll only be travelling along the new timeline.
  
  In Back to the Future, the timelines forked, so as long as they went back before the fork (point in time that a change was made), they would be in their original timeline.
  You say there's no going back to the original timeline, and I'm wondering if and how that would differ from the BttF fork theory.
- The time travellers already got Hatler and Hetler. They are still working on the next letter.
- Maybe the time travel is like Dark(the german series) where everything is set in stone and you cannot alter anything as your conscious won't allow it.
  Or maybe the traveller is simply a cult, where they only allow to observe. Or can only be done in spiritual form.
  
  That show's first episode was so slow and boring that I couldn't even finish it, sadly.
- Unless the bad guys got to time travel first... then every timeline becomes the bad timeline.
- Time travel could exist, but whatever a time traveler does, they were always going to do. If they didn't prevent a catastrophe, they couldn't have prevented the catastrophe. Something would always have prevented them.

Read Suter’s Two Journeys Series, you get a sniff their too :-(

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