He always has to buy the same meat because he goes into the store at the same time, every time. Would you journey down the rabbit hole This eight part event series follows Jake Epping (James Franco), an ordinary high school teacher, who is presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. 11/22/63 is a science fiction time traveling book that shows an alternate version of history where the change of a past event ruins the fabric of time. Originally the cook uses it to buy meat at '50s prices for his restaurant and bring it back through. When you go through it, you always come out at the same time: two minutes before noon, on a day in September 1958. My hero, Jake Epping, is befriended by a short-order cook who has a kind of a time bubble in the back of his diner. But if you wanted to stop the assassination of a president, that would be really difficult. If you wanted to go back and speak to somebody on a street corner so that they were five minutes late to an appointment-that might not be too hard. Stephen King: There's a kind of a rule that you'd express as a ratio: The more potential a given event has to change the future, the more difficult that event would be to change. He gets sick, his car won't start, he gets beaten up. Wired: Your main character is trying to alter the past, but everything gets in his way. Wired spoke with King about the mechanics of time travel, the grandfather paradox, and the scariest thing about trying to change history.

To get the details right, King talked to experts about the events leading up to Kennedy's death, and he consulted with heavyweight historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin on what might have happened had JFK lived. That's the premise of King's latest novel, 11/22/63, which follows Jake Epping as he slips back through time to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from pulling the trigger. Because the past will do its best to remain unchanged. And if you're going to try and undo a watershed event in history-the assassination of JFK, say-you had better be determined. The further back you go, the more you have to think about. If you're going to travel back in time, author Stephen King says, preparation is everything.

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