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As We Fall Through Time

by Claire North

Love and paradox across fractured history

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Love and paradox across fractured history

A world-ending future frames a time-travel story in which personal choices become tangled with historical rupture. Cal tries to alter the fate of the man he loves, while Fadimatu’s discovery of her own mummified body sets her on a path involving betrayal and a future murder. Their separate histories converge as the past and future begin to break apart. The novel brings queer romance, death foretold, and questions of cause and consequence into the same speculative framework, with the characters’ intimate stakes bound to the fate of time itself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in time-travel fiction built around paradoxes and altered history.
  • Readers seeking speculative fiction that includes queer romance and themes of love and betrayal.
  • Readers drawn to stories that connect personal relationships with large-scale ruptures in history.

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Time travel and paradoxQueer romanceLove and betrayalFate and historical change

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Book overview

"An absolute masterpiece of a book. North is one of the imaginative greats." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

A future that is already broken. A paradox that must be solved. A love that can never be erased.

?An extraordinary tale of time travel, betrayal, and queer romance, from Claire North, the multi-award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.

In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next.

When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what's the point of being a time traveler if you can't make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there--nothing Cal can't fix, to save the man he loves.

When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass.

And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives Cal and Fadimatu have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself.



"Casually brilliant, flippantly funny, deeply philosophical, and achingly tender, As We Fall Through Time is one of the best books of the year." --Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network

"At once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling. I can't imagine reading a better book this year." --H. G. Parry, author of The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

"Poignant, propulsive, and glorious." --M. R. Carey, author of Outlaw Planet
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