Lights! Camera! Mayhem! by Jodi TaylorMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
And so here it is the obligatory annual Christmas short story from St Mary's.
Film producer, Calvin Cutter, and actress Astrid Gustafsson return to St Mary's for historical research about their latest movie featuring Tempora the time travelling tourist (and tempura which I typed). As usual, Calvin doesn't let historical accuracy get in the way of showing off Astrid's unfeasibly tight silver jumpsuit as she karate-kicks her way through Troy before inevitably being rescued by Dirk Thrust as Achilles.
Of course young Adrian Meiklejohn is mesmerised by a six foot tall Amazonian Swede in skin-tight clothing and, rather foolishly, offers to show her a simulated time-travel device that St Mary's used to show educational holos to school of life in Troy (aka taken her in one of the pods to actual Troy and let her think she was watching a holo). And this is St Mary's so so many things went wrong.
This was just the thing to read after Christmas lunch when everyone is either asleep, washing up, or watching the King's speech.
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