First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. 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. Last Year audiobook, by Robert Charles Wilson. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. 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. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past once closed, it can't be reopened. And a given "past" can only be reached once. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past-but not our past, not exactly. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S.
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