SECONDARY

Everybody has bad days. Jim McAllister's having one that spans two timelines.

For an anthropologist, joining the Time Eye project is a career-making dream. He's hardly above pulling strings-especially for a chance to pull photons from the Bronze Age and directly view ancient cultures. Then rogue scientists hijack the Eye, sending an engineered virus back thousands of years. Jim, the last person interfaced with the system, can only watch as reality warps around him.

Now he's the sole remnant of the old history: a conspicuous, bizarrely-dressed young man who speaks no recognizable language. Thanks to the virus, anyone with two X chromosomes is a living, and potentially lethal, taser. Men have never been a significant threat to women-quite the opposite.

To have any chance of getting home-to even survive, in a world where men's concerns have been secondary for all of recorded history-Jim will need to find allies. He'll have to apply his skills to a uniquely unfamiliar culture, where much more than the gender signifiers are radically different. He must figure out who might listen to his story. A story that's clearly impossible and deeply offensive. Plus, just as a bonus, heretical.

CW: SA