Invictus
After Farway Gaius McCarthy fails his final examination at the Central Time Travelers
Academy, he puts together a rogue time travel crew to swipe valuable artifacts from the
past at moments when they won’t be missed. And it’s all roses until a mysterious girl
sidetracks them on the Titanic and steers them into a multiverse of fading
timelines.
As you might guess, we enjoyed Far and his friends, but the thing that
sealed an Eloi Bronze Medal was the fact that when a particular timeline actually managed
to branch (not an easy feat) and the traveler then jumped to the future, she found her
another self—the her that was born on that timeline—waiting for her. Most branching
timeline stories ignore this issue entirely.
— Michael Main
“There’s nothing to return to.” Eliot’s knuckles bulged at the seams, but she
didn’t yell. “When the Fade destroys a moment, it’s lost. Forever.”