num_pages: 351
description: From the author of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Spin comes an SF tale that poses searching questions about tourism and colonizationTwo events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant.It's the near future and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past not exactly. Each past is effectively an alternate world identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given past can only be reached once. After a passageway is open it's the only road to that particular past; once closed it can't be reopened.A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade but it's no secret on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time and many locals earn a good living catering to them. 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.Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. 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.
language: English
title: Last Year
publisher: Tor Books