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Time Salvager

by Wesley Chu · 2015

Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other… more

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Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. "They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space.
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Each year, humanity died a little more. ChronoCom’s charter was to fight that decline, yet things had never gotten better. Every year, there was a little less power to utilize. People went hungry a little longer. Lived lives a little harder. They were losing this war.
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For abyss’s sake, how many damn times do you have to wander off and get in trouble before you learn your lesson?
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This was the second time James had told her to stay still and she had ignored his command.
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James could have just saved them all that time and energy by telling them that chronmen became the way they did because the job fucking sucked.
You are injured, Auditor. Allow me to assist you,” she said, face grim and determined. “We apologize for disobeying orders, and submit to your judgment after this issue has been resolved.” Levin

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Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity’s demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.

James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their break

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First published
2015
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3.74 (5k ratings)

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