Last Year - Robert Charles Wilson
Category: Sci-Fi
Narrator: Scott Brick
Tags: Sci-Fi
Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant., Its the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past but not our past, not exactly. Each past is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given past can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, its the only road to that particular past; once closed, it cant be reopened., A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. Its been in operation for most of a decade, but its no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the natives become more sophisticated, their version of the past grows less attractive as a destination., Jesse Cullum is a nativ
