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Fiction Time Travel

Last Year

by (author) Robert Charles Wilson

Publisher
Tor/Forge
Initial publish date
Oct 2017
Category
Time Travel
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780765332639
    Publish Date
    Dec 2016
    List Price
    $38.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780765393302
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $23.99

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Description

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.
In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson'sLast Year, 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.

About the author

Robert Charles Wilson was born in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he became a Canadian citizen. He resided in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and breifly in Vancouver. Currently he lives with his wife Sharry in Concord, Ontario, just north of Toronto. He has two sons, Paul and Devon. His novel Spin won science fiction’s Hugo Award in 2006. Earlier, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel A Hidden Place; Canada’s Aurora Award for Darwinia; and the John W. Campbell Award for The Chronoliths.

Robert Charles Wilson's profile page

Awards

  • Short-listed, Locus Awards - Nominee

Editorial Reviews

"As always, Wilson has grounded his speculations in a suspenseful story focused on real people." —Toronto StaronThe Affinities
"Intriguing and seriously innovative."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Affinities
"This timely thriller will keep you turning its pages until the wee hours of the morning."—Paste on The Affinities

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