Banquo At Your Banquet
The Wall of Years
By Andrew M. Stephenson
27 Apr, 2025
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Andrew M. Stephenson’s 1979 The Wall of Years is a stand-alone science fiction novel.
In 2011, the Commissariat of National Integrity launched Project Damocles to protect the British Republics1 from the deleterious effects of time travel, specifically the possibility that events in nearby timelines could affect the home timeline. This is a serious concern given that neighboring timelines were marching to a final War. The simple answer: murder every outside analog of time travel’s inventor, Frobisher. With no outside time travel available, existence would remain local causality for local people.
The CNI’s models were flawed. Their actions set off a series of time storms. End result: the Earth was reduced to a nearly lifeless, radioactive wasteland2. Humanity perished… at least in 2011.
The 26th century is another matter entirely.