One thing that struck me while rereading Timemaster is how much Randy Hunter reminds me of Elon Musk—not because they're identical, but because they share the same relentless drive to solve problems everyone else considers impossible.
Hunter inherits an aerospace company, pushes far beyond conventional engineering, builds an interstellar transportation empire, and ultimately pursues time travel itself. Along the way, he becomes the world's first trillionaire, not through finance, but by building industries that simply didn't exist before.
That parallel is what caught my attention. Musk has often talked about creating entirely new industries around reusable rockets, electric vehicles, AI, and eventually Mars. If anyone in the real world seems to be following a similar path toward unimaginable wealth through engineering rather than Wall Street, it's him.
The comparison certainly isn't perfect, but rereading Timemaster today makes Randy Hunter feel surprisingly modern.
Did anyone else see the similarities?
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