Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline-a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.

But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.Ģ022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. (Sept.“ A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard.' -Wil Wheatonįrom Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.ġ992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. Agent: Laurie Fox, Linda Chester Literary. Smart and profound on every level, this is a deeply satisfying novel. The sidelong looks at prejudice-born horrors are frequent but not overwhelming, and the examinations of how much darkness one might be willing to endure in order to stop a vaster terror are heartbreaking. Newitz’s fascinating extrapolation is an intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences.

Their lives intertwine in ways neither quite understands, and the effects of their connection extend for centuries in both directions. Punk rock–loving high schooler Beth (1992 CE) just wants her own life, and normalcy after witnessing a murder. Geologist and time traveler Tess (2022 CE) is fighting a misogynist group set on subjugating women across the present and future, then destroying the time machines to lock in their dominance permanently. Newitz’s mind-rattling second novel (after Autonomous) is a multilayered tale of “editing” history, human rights, and the ripple effect.

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