Science Fiction
The Book of Lost Hours
Hayley Gelfuso
Synopsis
Lisavet Levy discovers an archive of the memories left by the dead. Inside it, agents erase records to alter history. A second story follows Amelia Duquesne during the Cold War, connecting the struggle over this extraordinary library with a world where controlling the past can shape the future.
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The Book of Lost Hours: who gets to keep the past?
Hayley Gelfuso places memory inside a library, then makes preserving it a struggle over whose history survives.
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