Last Year

In Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, Jesse Cullum faces a pivotal day on September 1st when he loses his Oakley sunglasses and inadvertently saves President Ulysses S. Grant. Set in a near-future where technology allows access to alternate versions of the past, the story unfolds in late 19th-century Ohio, where a small city thrives around a time-traveling passageway. As its appeal wanes and the passage threatens to close, Jesse is determined to follow his love back to the present, willing to uncover secrets to achieve his goal.