Twenty Six Years Early

About this book

On an ordinary morning in 2026, Ethan Cole, forty seven, a moderately successful, quietly lonely man, wakes in a bed he has not slept in for twenty six years. The posters on the wall are the ones he had at twenty one. The calendar says March 2000. His body is young. His mind is not; every memory of the coming quarter century is in it, the companies that will rise and fall, the crashes, the inventions, the prices, the whole shape of the future. And when he goes downstairs, his mother Linda is at the stove and his father Ray is at the table with the newspaper, and they are alive, and Ethan has to leave the room to keep from weeping, because he knows the date in October when a wet road will take them both.