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In a near‑future Ohio, technology allows people to open single‑use passageways to alternate pasts—worlds identical to ours up to the date of access. Jesse Cullum lives in a town that has grown around a gateway to an alternate late‑19th‑century Ohio.
The portal has attracted tourists and sustained the local economy, but its charm is fading as the "natives" of that alternate past grow more sophisticated. Jesse knows the passage will close soon and faces a dilemma: remain to safeguard the knowledge he has uncovered or risk everything to follow a woman from his time into the past.
Tension rises as he balances civic duty, personal desire, and the complex ethics of manipulating history.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Robert Charles Wilson
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