Out of His Time

Late in the summer of 2108, humanity stands at the threshold of the theoretically impossible. Time travel and access to parallel worlds are now achievable, though the Science and Physics behind them remain volatile and far from perfected. Dr. Harlan Avery, a methodical researcher with a sharp moral compass, discovers that the brilliant but unstable scientist overseeing the Temporal Chamber has been conducting unauthorized experiments with the Geophonetic Thermat. Determined to expose him for the safety of everyone involved, Harlan confronts the man. The confrontation doesn’t go as planned, with Harlan knocked unconscious and betrayed into an involuntary and irreversible exile. When Harlan comes to, he finds himself not still in the laboratory but in a dim and dangerous street scene sometime in the late 19th century. With nothing but the clothes that cover his skin and his pockets filled with cash that's no good and now-useless devices, he quickly realizes the truth: this exile is permanent. He's 200 years out of his own time… and no one is coming to get him. For years he drifts through London’s shadows, drinking, surviving, spiraling. Eventually clarity returns; clean, sober, and out of options, Harlan begins to write. By turning the memories of his future into stories disguised as visionary science-fiction, his novels take off. His ideas will change the world, his books will sell millions and no one but him will ever know he wasn’t imagining the future; he was remembering it.