One moment, Dr. Hugh Tracy is a man consumed by rage, breaking down a door with an automatic in hand. The next, reality itself has fractured.
Waking up in a world that defies every law of physics and history, Hugh finds himself in “Outside:” a dizzying, anachronistic limbo where the cobblestone streets of Elizabethan England are interrupted by modern newspapers and gleaming, futuristic citadels. He is a “transportee,” a soul cast into the cosmic margins to rectify a fundamental error.
To find his way back to the life he knew, Hugh must navigate a landscape of unsettling magic and shifting shadows. He is tasked with an impossible hunt: finding his “Atavars”—the physical manifestations of his own moral failings—before he is lost to this strange purgatory forever.
A masterful blend of classic science fiction and dark, surreal fantasy, Mistake Inside explores the thin line between reality and delusion. It is a haunting meditation on guilt, the consequences of our actions, and the terrifying possibility that our greatest mistakes might just rewrite the universe.