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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A temporal heist goes disastrously wrong when a thrill-seeking nomad gets his hands on a working time machine — and no intention of giving it back.
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A rogue tourist steals the Enigma codebook mid-war, and the Allied victory unravels one decrypted message at a time.
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A rewritten timeline forges a technologically advanced Native American empire — and the Archivists have to decide whether it deserves to be undone.
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Stranded after a sabotage attack erases the timeline they knew, the Archivists wake up in a Chicago that answers to Moscow.
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.