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The Traveler

by Joseph Eckert

A father and son on diverging timelines

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A father and son on diverging timelines

Scott Treder’s time jumps begin with a single missing day, then expand at a precise daily interval until years pass in moments. The disruption reshapes family life: his wife must carry on without him, while his son Lyle grows older and pursues quantum physics in an effort to bring his father back. The time-travel premise is closely tied to a family bond stretched across radically different experiences of time, with the consequences extending beyond the household to the wider world. The story combines speculative science with the changing relationship between a parent and child.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in time-travel fiction built around a family relationship.
  • Readers who enjoy speculative premises involving quantum physics and far-reaching consequences.

Themes

Time travelParent-child bondsFamily separationTime and agingQuantum physics

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Book overview

The Traveler is the story of a reluctant time-traveler and his extraordinary son, and the bond between them that even millennia cannot break. An adventure full of heartbreak, hope, and futures beyond imagination.

It's a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he's on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel. The next, he's tumbling headlong down the road, his car gone, a dozen panicked voicemails from his wife waiting on his cell.

7:51am. Monday, April 13th.

A blink of an eye.

7:52am. Tuesday, April 14th.

An entire 24 hours, gone.

This one moment--this first spontaneous slip--marks a change in the course not only of Scott's future, but that of the world. From this point on, at precisely 7:52am every morning, Scott inexplicably travels forward in time in ever-doubling intervals. First one day lost in a blink, then two, then four, until weeks, even years, are passing him by in an instant.

Meanwhile, his wife is left alone to pick up the pieces of the life they once shared together, and, before long, Lyle, Scott's genius seven-year-old son, will surpass him in age.

Because while his dad is rocketing forward in time, Lyle is growing up-graduating early, studying at Berkeley, becoming the foremost scholar of quantum physics, all in an attempt to bring his father back...

Meet an extraordinary father and son in this captivating, heart-wrenching speculative debut.

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