The Historian Project: A Time Travel Catastrophe

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist for Fiction

In the year AD 2754 there are no more history books. Instead, Historians travel back in time to attend historically significant events and report on them as they actually happened, not as traditional history has always told us they happened. Then they upload their reports to the Educator Database, which 28th century history teachers use to create and develop their course curriculum.

In this satire of 21st century America, our lives are being covertly observed by Historians from the year AD 2754. The future world population now lives in oceans across the globe and the time continuum, where they have no hunger, no countries, and no organized religion. They even, finally, designed a new world order to promote lasting peace. The Historians emerge from that world to mingle with and report on us in ours, undercover, during the Pandemic.

A blunder by one of these Historians triggers a potentially disastrous alternate history. To return the time continuum and recorded history to its original state, 28th century world leaders gather an emergency team of four "Heroes," whom they dispatch to Washington, D.C. in AD 2021. Their assignment is to stop a disturbed individual from murdering an adolescent who is supp/osed to grow up to be a highly consequential historical figure.

​​​​​​​ That blunder puts the boy's life at risk and threatens the future of the world - but the job of repairing this "anomaly" is so dirty that only individuals with no empathy or emotional responses are suited for the task. For this reason, the Heroes are all psychopaths.