Modelling time travel in fiction
Here I go with every model of time travel I can think of.
Time travel is impossible
The timeline is preserved through dumb luck
The timeline is actively protected by an intelligence of some kind
The timeline is preserved by quantum
Time travel isn't always possible
Pause for thought: Why single-modifiable-history models don't work
Two histories create each other
More imaginative structures
Two timelines going past each other in opposite directions
One timeline, which suddenly reverses direction