{"product_id":"wrong-timeline-a-quantum-glitch-novella-9798275839746","title":"Wrong Timeline: A Quantum Glitch Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael James\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne cigarette. One glitch. Every life he could have lived came crashing in at once. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a quiet porch in Texas, Ivan smokes some old weed, and his reality shatters. Suddenly, he's flooded with thousands of timelines-every branch, every choice, every version of himself that died young or lived wrong. His skull feels like it's splitting as he holds them all, a superposition of existences that demands he prune them down, one phone call at a time, to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom toxic exes to lost friends, each conversation deletes a universe until only three remain. He chooses one, thinking he's saved himself. But a year later, the truth hits: he picked the wrong timeline. The other two still whisper in the dark, ghosts of murdered possibilities, while this \"right\" one has remade him-sharper mind, sleepless nights, a stranger in his own life.\u003cbr\u003e\"The physicists can debate many-worlds and wave-function collapse all they want. I don't care about the theory anymore. I care that sometimes, in the quiet before dawn on the Slope, I can still feel the other two timelines breathing against the back of my neck like ghosts that know I murdered them.\"\u003cbr\u003ePart quantum horror, part raw confession, Wrong Timeline is a mind-bending novella about grief, reality's fragility, and the cost of seeing behind the curtain. Inspired by a true event, it blurs fiction and fact, urging you to question your own branches. For fans of Philip K. Dick's alternate realities, Ted Chiang's philosophical sci-fi, and the ego-death dread of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.\u003cbr\u003eRead it like contraband. Because if this happened to him, it could happen to you.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594085122199,"sku":"9798275839746","price":1290.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798275839746.webp?v=1774984643","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wrong-timeline-a-quantum-glitch-novella-9798275839746","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}