Literature 2019. Written by Blake Crouch.
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Total Record Results: 24 - Medium: LITERATURE / Group: DATES / Category: 21ST CENTURY: 10S
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2018 - 8 years ago
1November 2, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 2, 2018
Barry meets Ann Voss Peters at the Poe building, where he is unable to prevent her from committing suicide. An accident in Helena's lab sends John Jordan's consciousness back into a memory.

2November 4, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 4, 2018
Barry meets his ex-wife Julia for brunch at a cafe to remember their deceased daughter Megan on her birthday. In new timeline, Barry has brunch with both Julia and Megan on her 26th birthday. Eventually, Barry, after transferring his consciousness back to a dead memory per Marcus Slade's instructions, returns to the original timeline, where he has brunch with Julia on Megan's birthday.

3November 5, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 5, 2018
After paying Ann Voss Peters' false husband Joe Behrman a visit, Barry seeks out a mysterious hotel where he is drugged and abducted before being sent back into the past. Marcus Slade kills Helena in the original timeline. He then sneaks into the lab, reloads one of his memories into the stimulators and travels back in time, creating a new timeline. Eventually, Barry, after learning from Marcus Slade how to prevent dead memories from coming back, returns to the original timeline and prevents Marcus Slade from murdering Helena in the first place. Barry then seeks out Helena at a bar called Monk's Kettle.

4November 6, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 6, 2018
Barry finds himself locked in a deprivation tank, forced to experience the last memories of his daughter Megan's life. In new timeline, Barry and Helena discuss plans to destroy Marcus Slade's memory chair.

5November 7, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 7, 2018
Barry and Helena break into Marcus Slade's lab in order to destroy his memory chair. Multiple timelines ensue.

6November 15, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 15, 2018
Day 8 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Her former colleague demonstrates a powerful new use of the memory chair - sending a soldier back in time to prevent a school shooting in Maryland, saving the lives of 19 students.

7November 18, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 18, 2018
Day 11 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. She attends a meeting that includes DARPA, a representative of the technology corporation Rand Systems as well as two military soldiers, with the goal of establishing a new time travel program capable of undoing human misery.

8November 24, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

November 24, 2018
Day 17 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group becomes known as the Department of Undoing, and they establish official rules for using the memory chair, such as only going back three days into the past.

9December 1, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

December 1, 2018
Day 24 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Steve kills the serial killer targeting children that group will discuss the following day.

10December 2, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

December 2, 2018
Day 25 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group discusses using the memory chair to stop a serial killer targeting children.

11December 8, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

December 8, 2018
Day 31 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group declines to intervene in a train derailment in Texas hill country that kills 9 people.

12December 31, 201821st Century: 10sEvents

December 31, 2018
Day 54 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group declines to intervene in an airplane crash in the Evergreen Forest south of Seattle.

2019 - 7 years ago
13January 4, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

January 4, 2019
Day 58 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Helena's restrictions are loosened, and she is allowed to walk the streets of New York at night, with chaperone. Timini sent back one day before the January 5 crash of a highly classified Boeing FA-XX fighter jet near the Ukraine border.

14January 5, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

January 5, 2019
A highly classified Boeing FA-XX fighter jet malfunctions and goes down near the Ukraine border. The jet is confiscated and pilot captured.

15January 7, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

January 7, 2019
Day 61 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Timini stops an insurance salesman with a assault rifle from killing 28 students at a political demonstration on the Berkeley college campus.

16January 16, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

January 16, 2019
Day 70 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Steve prevents a suicide bomber from killing 12 people in the London Underground.

17February 5, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

February 5, 2019
Day 90 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. On the program's 3 month anniversary, the New York Times profiles their 8 missions so far, speculating about the existence of an enigmatic organization in possession of a technology beyond all understanding.

18February 14, 201921st Century: 10sDeath Dates

February 14, 2019
Helena Gray Smith dies in East Antarctica in the last recursive timeline before Barry transfers his consciousness back to a dead memory in the original timeline.

19March 2, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

March 2, 2019
Day 115 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Helena receives a late night visit from DARPA agent John Shaw, informing her that soon other governmental agencies will know what they're doing.

20March 23, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

March 23, 2019
Day 136 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group receives their first mandated assignment from the military - to travel back to January 4, 2019, the day before a highly classified Boeing FA-XX fighter jet malfunctioned and went down near the Ukraine border.

21March 27, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

March 27, 2019
Day 140 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. While the group continues to intervene in civilian tragedies, their workload becomes increasingly more military facing, including undoing a drone strike that hit a wedding party on accident.

22April 2, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

April 2, 2019
Day 146 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group revises a U.S. military airstrike that hit the wrong target.

23April 8, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

April 8, 2019
Day 152 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. The group resurrects 4 soldiers that died in an ambush. A new soldier is brought in to help Steve and Timini with the group's workload.

24April 16, 201921st Century: 10sEvents

April 16, 2019
In one timeline, it's Day 160 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Dead memories of multiple disasters surface, including a tunnel accident, a bridge explosion and a train station bombing. The Department of Undoing learns that the chair was leaked to private companies as well as governments almost a year earlier, and now others are using it to change the past. In several subsequent timelines, the world ends in nuclear war, despite Barry and Helen's attempts to rewrite history, trying and failing to find a way to prevent dead memories from harming the brain. Eventually, Barry learns from Marcus Slade how to stop it - going back into a dead memory from the original timeline.


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