Maxine McArthur's first novel, Time Future, was the critically acclaimed winner of the George Turner Prize and a Locus Recommended Book of the Year. Now McArthur returns to her richly realized universe in a riveting new tale of cataclysmic events and temporal anarchy...
WOMAN OUT OF TIME
The deep space station Jocasta is awaiting the outcome of a historic neutrality vote to win freedom from the Confederacy. Then the vote's reluctant instigator, Commander Halley, vanishes when an experiment with a captured jump drive leaves her trapped in Earth's past. But as she desperately tries to find a way back to her present, Halley uncovers a conspiracy that threatens history itself and will destroy the Confederacy. Her only hope to avert disaster is to make first contact with the enigmatic aliens who invented time travel if she can survive long enough. Because while an interstellar siege once kept Halley trapped aboard Jocasta, now far more powerful forces conspire against her ever returning to the station alive...
