The Historian Project: A Time Travel Catastrophe

Sometimes the situation just calls for a few psychopaths. But what do you do in the twenty-eighth century when you desperately need psychopaths, but you've long since identified a cure for the condition and totally eradicated it? Fortunately, you have time travel. When there are no psychopaths available and you need some, you just go back in time to medically manufacture them (so to speak) so they'll be grown, trained, and ready to report for work today. In the year AD 2754 there are no more history books. Instead, twenty-eighth century Historians travel back in time to attend significant historical events, where they telepathically interview the witnesses, participants, and victims. They create reports from their telepathic interviews, describe witnesses' reactions, thoughts and feelings about whatever transpires, and describe the consequences of those events on their lives. Then, they upload their reports to the Educator Database, from which twenty-eighth century history teachers create their course curriculum. One Historian unthinkingly—and illegally—speaks to two "locals" in the year AD 2021, triggering catastrophic events that change the course of history. Twenty-eighth century world leaders must gather up an emergency team to repair this "Anomaly" and return the time continuum and recorded history to its original state. Their emergency team includes one regular Historian, a local twenty-first century psychologist, and four psychopathic Historians, called "Heroes." Because this is one of those situations that just calls for a few psychopaths. Nell Gavin's other works include Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn, which was a William Faulkner finalist for Best Novel, and Hang On, which received the Living Now Book Awards silver medal for Inspirational Fiction.