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Camden & Red Lion Square, London — May 1682 Surprise and confusion are difficult feelings to quantify. Everything, after all, is relative; it depends entirely...
Building 7, Orford Ness, Suffolk — 2 February 1970 The shingle at Orford Ness does not merely sit; it groans. It is a shifting, desolate desert of grey flint...
Red Lion Square, London — 24 March 1776 As soon as Peck stepped into the study, he knew that something was wrong. Halting on the threshold and letting his eyes...
The Royal Greenwich Observatory & Deptford, London — November 1774 Sixteen months before John Harrison breathed his last in Red Lion Square, the Reverend...
Red Lion Square, London — 10 April 1776 Seventeen days after John Harrison’s death, his son William Harrison— a stout, practical man of forty-eight whose heart...
Blackfriars & Tower Hill, London — 30,456 BC Not far from where London Bridge and Castle Baynard would one day stand, in a dense tangle of river-alder and fern...
Senlac Hill, near Hastings, Sussex — 14 October 1066 Peck did not land so much as he was spat from the mouth of a cannon. One heartbeat he had been sitting...
The Royal Greenwich Observatory, London — April 1776 While Isaac Peckham was fleeing through the blood-soaked woods of eleventh-century Sussex, seven hundred...
Sussex & London (16 October 1066) — London (29 May 1660) Two days after the slaughter on Senlac Hill, on the sixteenth of October 1066, Peck trudged northward...
Southwestern India (13 AD) — Portuguese Calicut (15 June 1502) Some myths are merely fireside fancies, spun by old men to pass the monsoon nights, and some are...
Tower Hill, London (30,456 BC) — Pudding Lane, London (2 September 1666) On a sunny afternoon in the year 30,456 BC, Bartholomew Browne was taking a...
Athens, Greece — Summer 2011 to 2016 The transition from the burning rafters of Pudding Lane was a shriek of white light followed by the jarring, discordant...
Lincoln’s Inn, London (August 2018) — Mercury City Tower, Moscow (November 2025) The senior partner’s room at Sterling, Vance & Butterworth in Lincoln’s Inn...
Syntagma Square & Zografou University, Athens — August 2042 & 31 December 2041 Standing on the underground platform near Syntagma Square station waiting for an...
Zografou University of Science and Technology, Athens — 31 August 2042 Eight months after that New Year’s Eve triumph, Alex’s taxi turned off the avenue into...
Zografou University Sub-Level Vault, Athens — 31 August 2042 Major Boro Grol arrived at Zografou University twenty-two minutes later, clearing the municipal...
A Watch-Shop in Deptford, London — Winter 1792 Two hundred and fifty years before the containment bell shattered beneath Athens, the back parlour of a narrow...
The Seam of the Rift — Outside Local Time The eye of the storm was not a place that belonged to any map of earth, but a still seam between the centuries where...
Building 7, Orford Ness, Suffolk — 2 February 1970 On the shingle spit of Orford Ness, ten seconds after the three-year-old chimpanzee vanished from the...
Calicut (13 AD) — Red Lion Square, London (24 March 1776) — Orford Ness (2026) The world did not mend itself with a thunderclap, but with the quiet, rhythmic...
The 16th & 17th Centuries Afonso Valente (c. 1470 – c. 1503 [died in prehistoric/13 AD sea-cliff cave]): A Portuguese sailor from the early Malabar...
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