Secondhand Daylight

Green cannot stop his time jumps into the future; Zada must travel to the past to find out why.

Something is happening to Green. He is an ordinary guy, time-jumping forward at a startling, uncontainable rate. He is grappling to understand his present; his relationship is wholly tattered; his ultimate destination is a colossal question mark.

Zada is a scientist in the future. She is mindful of Green’s conundrum and seeks to unravel it by going backwards in time. Can she stop him from jumping to infinity?

Their point of intersection is fleeting but memorable, each one’s travel impacting the other’s past or future. And one of them doesn’t even know it yet.

Secondhand Daylight is a reverse story in alternate timelines between two protagonists whose lives must one day intersect.

A titillating offering from World Fantasy Award-finalist Eugen Bacon, an Otherwise Fellowships honouree for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. In collaboration with three-time British Fantasy Society Award-winner Andrew Hook.

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections. She’s a finalist in the 2022 World Fantasy Award. Her recent books Ivory’s Story, Danged Black Thing and Saving Shadows are finalists in the British Science Fiction Association Awards. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Her collection Danged Black Thing made the 2021 Otherwise Honor List. Eugen has won, or been commended in international awards, including the Aurealis, Foreword Indies, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise, Elgin, Rhysling, Australian Shadows, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Eugen’s creative work has appeared in literary and speculative fiction publications worldwide, including Award Winning Australian Writing, BSFA, Fantasy Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. Her books in 2022: Mage of Fools (novel), Chasing Whispers (collection) and An Earnest Blackness (essay collection). Visit her website at eugenbacon.com and Twitter feed at @EugenBacon

Andrew Hook has had over a hundred and sixty short stories published, with several novels, novellas and collections also in print. Stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Ambit to Interzone. Recent books are a collection of mostly SF stories, Frequencies of Existence (NewCon Press), and a series of crime novels through Head Shot Press. He lives in Norwich, UK.