The Future of Another Timeline

By Annalee Newitz

Book Overview

"A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard."--Wil Wheaton

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.

2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn't as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.

Tess and Beth's lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person's actions to echo throughout the timeline?

Praise for The Future of Another Timeline:

"An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Smart and profound on every level."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"You close the book reeling with questions about your own life and your part in changing the future."--Amy Acker, actress (Angel and Person of Interest)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765392100
• ISBN13: 9780765392107
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected

I got an ARC of this book from Bookish First. Somehow, from the first look that I read of it, I thought this was going to be a bit more entertaining than it turned out to be. I usually read books to escape from real life, but this book kind of dragged real life back in. I was a fan of the time traveling and I wished there was more explaining and finding out where the Machines came from, who built them, or how they came to be. The Tess parts of the story were interesting at times and I liked learning about some of the alternative history (the blurbs of real history at the back of the book were cool too) but I kept dropping out when it kind of got too, dare I say preachy? Plus she got to break the rules of time travel and she turned out okay, unlike the example that was mentioned as what happened when the rules were broken. The solution to her issues at the very end kind of seemed like a cop out to make it end happily for all the parties involved. I think I liked Beth's part of the story better, even if it did not involve the time travel so much, except on the peripheral. It felt better written, though again, I usually read books to escape reality and this was a big dose of it. This book was alright but I probably won't read it again, or recommend it. The cover is cool though.