All Aleck Woad wants to do is chill in his interdimensional Archive. Putter around with his collections of knickknacks from many worlds, scrawl in his notebooks, maybe take the occasional jaunt across the multiverse with his wife and partner-in-crime, Beth.
In the back of his mind, though, he has always been haunted by his first trip offworld as a teenager. He had unwittingly helped catalyze the bloody Battle of Melkhaios, in which hundreds of innocents were massacred. He had met his own future self, meddling with the battle, trying to stop it.
And he had seen his future self gunned down by the Reality Patrol.
He usually does his best not to think about it.
But one day, Aleck and Beth find themselves without warning back in Melkhaios. And they soon discover (as sometimes happens with interdimensional travel) that they have gone back in time, arriving sometime before young Aleck and the Battle.
This is Aleck’s unexpected chance to undo the bloody events he witnessed as a youth – if he can change history before his own death catches up with him.
Unfortunately, changing your own past is easier said than done….
Inhoudsopgave
Prologue at the End of Washington, D.C.
The Acting Archivist
The Acting Archivist’s Wife
Another Archive
Bone Council
Interlude in Aleck’s Smoking Room
The Master Summoner
The Arch-Dean
The Prayer to the Nymph
Bababadalgharagh Street
Interlude in Aleck’s Smoking Room II
Oshta and the Nymph
Interlude in Rattle Trance
The Wolf of Kaios
The Well of Zebdod
First Herald II
Writer’s Block in the City of the Watcher
Skull of Kaios II
The Cannibal-King
The Battle of Melkhaios
Epilogue in the Middle of Nowhere
Over de auteur
Andrew M. Reichart is the author of four short novels, Wallflower Assassin and the City of the Watcher trilogy, and co-creator of the Weird Luck webcomic with Nick Walker and Mike Bennewitz. He co-edited Dora M. Raymaker’s first two novels, Hoshi and the Red City Circuit and Resonance; edited the anthologies Weird Luck Tales 7 and 8; and co-edited the anthologies Spoon Knife 3: Incursions with Nick Walker and Spoon Knife 5: Liminal with Dora M. Raymaker and Nick Walker. In other media, Andrew is currently developing a series of black & white illustrations for an upcoming illustrated single-volume omnibus edition of City of the Watcher, and current music projects include The Wreck of the Argus (experimental ambient noise) and Hellhound Heart (lo-fi punk). His current day jobs include business consultant and associate psychotherapist. He lives in California with his wife and a couple of dogs.
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