John Havelock
John Havelock, often referred to as Judge Havelock or simply Havelock, is a mathematician alleged time-traveler, usually found in Periphery between 1801 and 1911.
Havelock provides a timeline-rewriting service judgement service involving the transdimensional substance Extract of Radium, usually mixed with various computer programs of his own design, such as Havelock Plays Russian Roulette.
He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because death doesn't happen to him, while Traversing his 1801-1911 range.
Commentary
May 11, 2020: John Havelock is myself as an American West gunslinger and inventor who has exchanged alcoholism for immortality.
In the News
The "Your Gun, My Head" scene from Bargain.
1892: Mathematicians John Havelock and Henri Poincaré co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the Chernobyl disaster to within 98.37% accuracy.
1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.
Clock Head advises Judge Havelock to drink less Extract of Radium, less often.
Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery "is probably accurate, although I am dead at the time," says Havelock.
Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.
Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invites Havelock to collaborate on electric transmission project.
Fiction cross-reference
- Baron Zersetzung - hostile colleague
- Clock Head - ally
- Gnomon algorithm
- Havelock interview
- Havelock Plays Russian Roulette
- Hollerith
- John Havelock and Henri Poincaré
- Luck-monger
- Periphery (town)
- Salvatore
- The Patrick Device
- Traversal
- Your Gun, My Head