Last year
(2016)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
SF/WILSON,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Science Fiction SF/WILSON,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

351 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780765332639, 0765332639 :, 9780765332639 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0765332639 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A Tor Book."

"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the "natives" become more sophisticated, their version of the "past" grows less attractive as a destination. Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back--no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it"--