Annalee Newitz, "The Future of Another Timeline" (Tor, 2019)

New Books in Literature · Sep 26, 2019 · 45m

Amid a wave of time travel books published this year, Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline(Tor, 2019)stands out for its focus on a woman’s right to obtain a safe abortion. The book opens in an alternate America in which women gained the right to vote in the 1870s (rather than 1920), but abortion never became legal. “I was imagining that if women had gotten the vote earlier, there might have been a backlash, which would have prevented a reproductive rights movement from really taking hold,” Newitz says. In the novel, time travel has gone mainstream. Anyone with the proper training…