When history breaks, three time travlers, brought together by chance, are all that stand between the world we know and disaster.
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Grady Dennison has just invented time travel. His goal? To fill in the empty spaces in human history. But almost from the start things get complicated.
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A simple recovery mission goes sideways when time suddenly changes around James in Celeste in 1940's England. They must find the how and why in order to repair the timeline
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A rewritten timeline forges a technologically advanced Native American nation — and this timeline appears to be better. The Archivist Project has to decide, who is the custodian of the timeline, and who decides what better is.
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When Grady, James, and Celeste are all in the past when someone changes the timeline, they find themselves in a dystopian version of Chicago with little to tell them what happened.
Open File →I try to connect real history to a strong character driven story to make the history accessible. I also make my world feel as real as ours, including a rule: no heroes, no villains, just people living according to their experiences and acting on their motivations.
I want stories that are fun and fast, but that teach something in the background — the way Carl Sagan's Contact smuggled real physics inside a thriller. Here, it's history doing the smuggling.
To be honest? To see if I could. I started off trying to write The Archivist as a concept based short story for my community college student journal. I didn't do a good job, didn't get published and vowed to someday finish the short story as a novel. That was in 2016...yeah. Now I do it so I can tell my character's stories through to the end.