Sci-Fi Book Launch: The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi

Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for the launch of Philip Fracassi's newest novel, The Third Rule of Time Travel!

Fracassi will discuss crafting new ideas in a well-worn genre, his influences, and more in conversation with Colin Hinckley, bookseller extraordinaire.

About the book:

Rule One: You can only travel to a point within your lifetime.

Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.

Rule Three: You can only observe.

The rules cannot be broken.

Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time—to any point in the traveler's lifetime—and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe.

After Beth's husband, Colson, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident, Beth is left to raise Isabella—their only daughter—and continue the work they started. Mired in grief and threatened by her ruthless CEO, Beth pushes herself to the limit to prove the value of her technology.

Then the impossible happens. Simply viewing personal history should not alter the present, but with each new observation she makes, her own timeline begins to warp.

As her reality constantly shifts, Beth must solve the puzzles of her past, even if it means forsaking her future.

About the authors:

Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of the story collections Behold the Void and Beneath a Pale Sky. His novels include A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. His stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Interzone, and Black Static. Philip lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Copps Literary Services.

Colin Hinckley is the author of The Black Lord published by Tenebrous Press. The book landed on The Line Up’s Top 12 Indie Horror Releases of 2023 along with several year end best-of lists, and was translated into Italian to wide acclaim. His work has appeared in Tales to Terrify, Thank You for Joining the Algorithm, Whisk(e)y Tit, and is forthcoming in Cosmic Horror Monthly. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and cat, and is a bookseller at Village Well Books & Coffee.

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