Status Updates From The Time Roads

The queen makes a desperate trek to the future.

Even more horrific and destructive terakts, and references to the occupation of the Anglian Dependencies.

A visit to the hospital, and further echoes of pasts that weren't.

The confrontation with the representatives of the Anglian Dependencies, and then the horrible terakt at the air show. The strange fragmented nature of the memories of that event, with multiple contradictory accounts. More evidence of the cracks in time itself.

Has our policeman turned spy averted this world's version of WWI? Now our last story returns to the queen, and her first-person narrative. The execution of her would-be assassin from the first story, and ghost memories of events that are no longer.

A close brush with death -- a deliberate attempt on his life? His growing unease with this undercover mission, the possibility that his cover identity may be compromised -- but how to create a new one?

His memories of things that weren't -- or rather were erased as a result of time travel? Yet again a ref to the first story.

the terrible revelation of the killer's identity, and of the intersection of mathematics, drugs and time travel. The third story begins with the detective's time in the insane asylum that was mentioned in the first story.

Memories of the twins' first introduction to higher math. The use of cocaine as a mind-enhancing drug that seems able to allow Siomon to access paratime.

The investigation -- and the increasing sense of time out of joint, of the alternative of the first story.

The original story that inspired all the others in this fix-up. A brother visiting his sister, a mathematical genius now mad and obsessively reciting primes -- the sort of huge ones that in the here and now are used in cryptology.

The tragic flight of the would-be time traveler -- and the reappearance of his model airship. Grief, questions -- and a puzzle.

A life upended. The day after she meets the man who claims to have invented time travel, her father dies and she becomes Queen. Then she's the target of an assassination attempt and she is given a special bodyguard. small wonder she forgets Mr. Time Travel.

Reading it again, as I originally read it while unwell, and as I went to write a critical essay on it, I discovered that I had only vague and blurry recollections of the four stories. They're excellent, but very, very dense, and deserve a re-reading so I can do them justice in my discussion of them.

this has been on my bookshelf for forever but… irish time travelers !! mathematician murder mystery !!