A few years back I began writing a series of essays about time travel in fiction. They’re not good enough to show you yet, but one of them was about the personal side of what many people (wrongly) think is a distanced, emotionless type of sci-fi story. The time travel story.

Whether sweeping over centuries to chase vampires, or looping back through hours to entrap yet another time-lost version of themselves, a time traveller’s worldline can become a vehicle for a type of emotive storytelling which is difficult to find in places without time machines.

So, if you (or your characters, if you’re a writer) were to go back through time to one moment. To relive or to change things. Which moment would you pick?

Would it be of historical or personal significance? Is it both?

And do you think changing things then, would change things now?