Leigh Kimmel’s Reviews > The Time Roads > Status Update

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.