{4.5\/5} “But visitors don’t get into the City for free, do they? The price is paid in gold and silver, and all that gold and silver goes straight to the so-called future, where it lines somebody’s pocket. How they came here is difficult to understand; what they want of us is not.”<\/p>\n
Last Year<\/strong> by Robert Charles Wilson, published in 2016<\/p>\n In Illinois in 1876 the City of Futurity allows people from the future to visit America’s past. And it allows locals who can afford it to get a glimpse of the future. But it’s not going to be around forever — 1877 will be its last year. When Jesse saves the life of President Ulysses S. Grant he’s asked to investigate how the world-be assassin obtained a weapon from the future.<\/p>\n The premise is delightful, and the story proceeds from the motivations of an intriguing group of characters. In particular, a man of the past and a woman of the future are thrown together to solve a mystery and find a missing person.<\/p>\n It’s another Wilson novel that could have a sequel but probably won’t. I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n