Timestorm
Julie Cross
- Reading
- As you read, keep track of what Jackson knows about the future and what he still has to find out. This can help make sense of decisions made under uncertainty.
- Themes
- Love and competing priorities: Jackson faces a choice between saving people he loves and risking everything to try to prevent a horrific future. The story frames love as costly and places personal loyalty alongside wider consequences, inviting readers to weigh competing priorities.
- Power and human cost: Eyewall seeks to shape the future regardless of human cost, while Jackson and others need to stop experiments at its headquarters. The story links experiments at Eyewall with conflict over shaping the future and its human cost.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes violence, sexual situations and profanity. Consider whether these elements fit your reader alongside its conflict and danger.