

Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires a desperate backlash”. As Tess observes, “change is never linear and obvious. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as it may seem. In 2022, Tess is a geologist who is one of a team of time-traveling scholars, and she hops to key moments in history to change the timeline and create a better future. The event sets the young women on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize how many other young women in the world need protecting as well.

In 1992, after a confrontation at a riot grrrl concert, 17-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the back seat, and agrees to help her friends hide the body. The feminist time-travel adventure follows Tess, a professional time traveler, geoscientist, and secretly a member of the Daughters of Harriet (Tubman), who are working to make the future better for women. The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz.
