For Professor Edward Chalmers, history isn’s something you study—it’s something you experience before it even happens.
While his colleagues at Blanley College are preoccupied with the past, Chalmers is haunted by a “memory” of things yet to come: the launch of secret rockets, the rise of new empires, and the shifting borders of a world not yet formed. To his students, he is a brilliant eccentric; to his administration, he is a liability; and to the skeptics, he is simply losing his grip on reality.
But when a high-profile political assassination occurs exactly as Chalmers described it in his lectures, the “slips of the tongue” become something far more dangerous. Suddenly, the professor is no longer just a man fighting for tenure; he is the center of a global storm involving parapsychologists, international media, and shadowy intelligence agencies.