The Anomaly: A Time-Phase Slip

A Waystation temporal agent's recall beacon fails catastrophically, scattering his consciousness forward through the timestream. He doesn't die. He propagates-embedding in successive human hosts, each unaware of what they carry. Waystation monitors this from outside the timestream.

The novel follows four lives, each echoing one verse of Jimmy Webb's "Highwayman."

Jax Harlan is a salvage operator working the Mars-Jupiter Lagrange corridors from Ceres Station in the asteroid belt. He interc...