I'm still wondering if that Balticon qualifies as a lynchpin. There are certainly plenty of ways a time traveller can flip it: stop you from going, stop me from going (and there are probably a lot of ways to accomplish that), change our schedules at the convention so we don't run into each other (might be tricky). It certainly ripples and affects other things.
What I'm not certain of is whether without Balticon something substantially similar might not have happened sufficiently soon enough that the timeline remains stable. If so, the event is a little different than a Chrononaut lynchpin.
My two biggest lynchpins are December '94 and November '95, with the latter being more or less an opportunity to make up for the former. If I could travel in time and change my own life, that first one is the one I'd be most tempted to flip--and if presented with the opportunity I probably would, even knowing what it would cost me.
Others include September '97, March(?) '00, June '03, Balticon, Feb(?) '05 [?], Aug '06. I'm not sure I'f I'd flip any of them even if I could.
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What I'm not certain of is whether without Balticon something substantially similar might not have happened sufficiently soon enough that the timeline remains stable. If so, the event is a little different than a Chrononaut lynchpin.
My two biggest lynchpins are December '94 and November '95, with the latter being more or less an opportunity to make up for the former. If I could travel in time and change my own life, that first one is the one I'd be most tempted to flip--and if presented with the opportunity I probably would, even knowing what it would cost me.
Others include September '97, March(?) '00, June '03, Balticon, Feb(?) '05 [?], Aug '06. I'm not sure I'f I'd flip any of them even if I could.