On Time Travel and Trolley Problems
Fellow Travellers follows a young time traveller named Bindra on a crazy adventure between many, many centuries as a fellow time traveller attempts to mess with time.
There's a train crash.
Disaster physics.
Moral dilemmas.
Action-packed fight scenes (with time travel, who would have thought).
But most importantly, the book is a philosopher's dream come true.. When I finished reading the story, I realized, at its core, that Fellow Travellers was a giant trolley problem in disguise.
I'm sure you've heard of trolley problems before. A trolley is heading toward a platform. If it crashes, it will kill five people. You can flip a switch that will shift the tracks onto a different path, but there is one person who will die if you flip the switch. What do you do?
That's the basic formulation. There are hundreds of variants.
And with that, I'll just end and say: if you like time travel and trolley problems, you should read Fellow Travellers.
Five stars.