Last year / Robert Charles Wilson.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 351 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780765332639
- 0765332639
- 813/.6Â 23
- PR9199.3.W4987Â L37 2016
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Coffeyville Public Library Adult Fiction | Coffeyville Public Library | Adult Books | F WILSON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38670101458376 | ||
Book | Fort Scott Public Library Adult SciFi / Fantasy | Fort Scott Public Library | Adult Books | S-F Wils (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35326000387686 | ||
Book | Iola Public Library Adult SciFi / Fantasy | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | SF Wilson, Robert (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34311002625326 |
"A Tor Book."
"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the "natives" become more sophisticated, their version of the "past" grows less attractive as a destination. Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back--no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it"--
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