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A night-shift machinist climbs into an iron cylinder for one afternoon. When he climbs out, nearly two decades have passed, and the world has learned to sell what happened to him.

Lake City, 1996. Calvin Frost cuts steel on the graveyard shift at Corvel Machine Works, comes home to a rambler that smells of cutting oil and medicine, and takes cash on the side from Dorian Vale, a quiet entrepreneur running something strange out of a converted bay on Calder Avenue. The business is called Stillh...