James Kidd has lived far longer than any man should, his life stretched and twisted by forces that blur the line between time travel and something even stranger. He calls Earth "Home," and since 2080, nothing there-or anywhere-has been quite the same. His most recent 'home' is Asteroid Belt Habitat 1, as expected near the Asteroid Belt in our Solar System. Now, as his extraordinary timeline threatens to meme actually end, instead of simply twisting, James races to finish the only record of a story that spans centuries and galaxies.
Encased in an alien polymer shell, in which, he was orbiting, but now hurtles, toward the surface of an unnamed planet in the Andromeda Galaxy-aboard a failing lander, he and his wife, ominously nicknamed Loopy. Above him, orbiting safely in an orbiter (called Orbiter) - a ship designed like a 20th-century Formula One car (basically uncomfortable and minimalist) - waits his colleague and wife, Charlotte. Further away still, poised at the silent Lagrange Point of this large alien planet, sits their mother ship and home that they call Infinity Loops.
He was never meant to crash. What experienced pilot does? Their Alien technology was never expected to fail. In fact its failure has not been recorded. A personal disaster was the one variable they stopped calculating: their Alien-origined AI in Infinity Loops was usually perfect, so what went wrong?
But electronics fail. Communications die. Gravity does not negotiate.
A former Group Captain of the RAF, seconded to the RAAF, James has faced wars, anomalies, and the quiet terror of deep space. Yet nothing has unsettled him like this descent-or the possibility that Charlotte may soon be alone among the stars, a mere 2.5 million light years from home!
Is this the final entry in a memoir that defies belief? Or merely the beginning of a revelation that will rewrite humanity's place in the cosmos?
As Loopy falls and the atmosphere blurs, one question burns brighter than the planet below: if time itself has been confounded, can an ending ever truly exist?
