A collection of seven time-bending sci-fi stories by the author of the New York Timesâbestselling Lost Fleet seriesâwith new authorâs notes for each story.
In âBetty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms,â a pair of time travelers get stuck in 1964âand in the bodies of their fifteen-year-old selves. Itâs a terrible time to have other time travelers looking to kill you. SFRevu called this story âone of the most enjoyable reads Iâve had in a long time.â
In four interlinked short stories, a pair of Temporal Interventionists try to solve some of historyâs greatest mysteriesâfrom the origin of the Spanish Flu to an unexplained explosion in the worldâs least-inhabited region in 1908. Why were ironclad warships being developed by both the South and the North at the exact same time during the American Civil War? And why donât we know who fired the âshot heard âround the world,â the lone gunshot that started the American Revolution?
In âJoan,â a time-traveling researcher named Kate has gotten a little too close to Joan of Arc, both emotionally and temporallyâand now has a chance to rescue her from being burnt at the stake. And in the final story, âCrowâs Feat,â a skeptical writer goes back to Elizabethan England to discover the true author of Shakespeareâs plays.