Last Year Audiobook (Free)

Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. Initial, he lost a set of Oakley sun glasses. Second, he kept the life span of Leader Ulysses S. Offer.

Soon of Robert Charles Wilson’s THIS PAST YEAR, the technology is available to open doorways in to the past–but not our past, not exactly. Each ‘previous’ is efficiently an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the day which we access it. And confirmed ‘past’ can only just become reached once. After a passageway can be open up, it’s about THIS PAST YEAR the only street to that particular past; once shut, it can’t be reopened.

A passageway continues to be opened to a version lately 19th-century Ohio. It’s been in operation for some of a decade, but it’s no top secret, on either side of time. A little city has grown up around it to amuse site visitors from our period, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such procedures, it includes a shelf existence; as the ‘natives’ are more sophisticated, their version from the ‘former’ grows much less attractive like a destination.

Jesse Cullum is a native. And he understands the passageway will become closing quickly. He’s fallen deeply in love with a female from our time, and he means to stick to her back–no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it.