The Origins of Time Travel

Time travel wasn’t discovered in a lab. It doesn’t happen in a machine. When Ruth Riley decides to lie on the damp earth above John Parker’s freshly buried body, her simple aim is to escape her small life. What she does instead is unwittingly set in motion decades of discovery around the true nature of time travel. As a psychic in a small Arizona ghost town, she felt doomed to die in the place she was born. Her only escape was her secret ability to travel into the past using the dead as a doorway. When she decides to nose around in the life of the town’s only murder victim in years, her otherwise boring existence is thrust into chaos. Soon, she finds herself at the center of the murder investigation, operating as both the cops’ psychic sleuth and a time-hopping heroine, tasked with saving John’s life. With each trip back in time, Ruth attempts to learn more about the young man she’s falling in love with before he meets his seemingly inevitable end. In this mind-warping exploration of consciousness, human potential and fate, Ruth sets into motion a series of events that echo through time and beg us all to confront the nature of our reality. The Origins of Time Travel is a prequel to The Luxury of Time Travel .