Overview

Everybody has bad days. Jim McAllister's having one that spans two timelines. For an anthropologist, joining the Time Eye project is a career-making dream. He's hardly above pulling strings-especially for a chance to pull photons from the Bronze Age and directly view ancient cultures. Then rogue scientists hijack the Eye, sending an engineered virus back thousands of years. Jim, the last person interfaced with the system, can only watch as reality warps around him. Now he's the sole remnant of the old history: a conspicuous, bizarrely-dressed young man who speaks no recognizable language. Thanks to the virus, anyone with two X chromosomes is a living, and potentially lethal, taser. Men have never been a significant threat to women-quite the opposite. To have any chance of getting home-to even survive, in a world where men's concerns have been secondary for all of recorded history-Jim will need to find allies. He'll have to apply his skills to a uniquely unfamiliar culture, where much more than the gender signifiers are radically different. He must figure out who might listen to his story. A story that's clearly impossible and deeply offensive. Plus, just as a bonus, heretical. CW: SA

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""One of the more creative ""time travel"" concepts I've ever read."" ""A smoothly told story with a sympathetic protagonist combining anthropology, history and gender studies in a well-crafted science fiction vessel."" ""Brilliant worldbuilding with an intriguing premise."" ""It's a rare book that presents wholly new ideas or paradigms, but SECONDARY succeeds. Strongly, strongly recommend.""

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Ray Ingles is a software developer with a masters in electrical engineering, a lifelong taste for science fiction, and a head stuffed with a diverse collection of odd facts. He lives in Michigan with my wife, four boys, two dogs, and two cats.

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