Part of Impossible Times
First published 2019
Nick Hayes has cracked the universe open. His genius for mathematics and physics gave him something no one else has: the ability to move through time. But that same gift showed him exactly how his story ends. He watched it happen. He knows the year, 2011, and he knows it involves Mia. Every discovery he makes, every year he survives, pulls him one step closer to that fixed point. Then in 1992 he finds something that stops him cold. The evidence suggests he has been lying to himself, deliberately, for years. He cannot figure out why. A man who built his life on extracting truth from the universe turns out to have buried one truth from himself. That question sits with him for years. It becomes the real problem, bigger than time travel, bigger than the physics. Nick does not need to find a way out of his fate. He needs to understand why he chose it. Failure was never something he accepted. But survival was never quite on the table either. Now he is looking for a third option, and it starts with letting himself believe something that is not true.
Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, time-travel, adult-fiction, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, existential, introspective, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fixed-point-in-time, paradox, self-discovery, unreliable-narrator
Period: 1992, 2011
234 pages · Kindle Edition · 47North
Content warnings: death