Yesterday's Oglaf (Aftermaths) would be an interesting thing to read about. I really wouldn't mind reading a book about a time-travelling executioner.
@trinsec There's an episode of Red Dwarf about a time travelling executioner.
Perhaps it's an idea that's been floating around science fiction for a while.
@lydiaconwell Mm, I watched red dwarf but can't quite remember the time travelling executioner.
Though I'd be more interested in reading about the idea around it. Like, they have to send the executioner back to kill the culprit's grandfather just like they did in Oglaf. Wrong choices, implications, more killings as revenge 'YOU KILLED MY BLOODLINE BEFORE I *poof*' and such. It might be hilarious!
movie spoiler - Looper (2012)
@Pat @lydiaconwell Huh. I might have to see that.
movie spoiler - Looper (2012)
@trinsec @lydiaconwell
**** movie spoiler - Looper (2012) ****
In this film a crime syndicate in the future sends people, who they want to kill, back in time to the present, where they have hired present-day assassins who kill them. The assassins kill the victims, whose heads are covered, as soon as they appear after the time-travel trip to the present. (Apparently the bad guys do this to avoid having bodies to dispose of in the future.)
A twist to the plot is that if any of those present-day assassins live long enough to be alive in the bad guys' future, the bad guys will kill the assassin to make sure there are no loose ends. The way they kill the assassin is to send him back in time to have him killed by his own younger self. They call this "closing the loop".