Commercialized Time Travel as a boutique industry.
"In all the millions of words I've read, I never came across Clarke's time travel concept. This story ranks near the top of my long list of science fiction short stories." Robert G. Williscroft, Bestselling author of The Starchild Saga and The Oort Chronicles.
Shortly after Time Travel is commercialized, a boutique specialty focuses on identifying and tracking human souls through their unique energy "fingerprints"-fingerprints that remain unchanged through all incarnations of that soul, swapping from one gender to the next, and even while inhabiting other Earth or off-planet locations. In the mid-21st Century, commercial time travel to experience a soul's previous lifetimes becomes a most exotic and expensive recreational adventure, taking the explorer on individualized trips back through time. Through Spirit Writing, a fallout of time travel, we follow a Tennessee family that drops in on its Scottish Highlander forebears in the 1620s, rebounding back to Atlanta in 2040, then on to Boston and Hungary in 2080. Soul connections, multi-generational romance, and devastating foibles highlight this tale.
