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He Comes Back on Tuesday
Harrowgate Fell Radio Observatory sits eleven kilometres above Cwmffrw on a moor where the rain comes sideways off the Cymyran, and it holds two dishes, a hydrogen maser, and a switch that is thrown every Tuesday night at 22:00 for ninety minutes because the 33/11 kV substation at Cwmffrw is on a sw
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- 5 endings
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About
At 22:40 on the first of September 2026 the maser's 1 MHz distribution takes a phase injection of exactly 604 800 seconds, and a man called Emrys Tarrant, forty years old, who is at the time standing in the control room of an unmanned radio telescope, is taken back four hours and fifty minutes to the same Tuesday. He has no memory of any of it. He has been taken 144 times. He is not going to be forty-one until he is told. Rhosyn Vaughan is thirty-six and she is the senior technician who holds the two keys to the phase-injection laptop, and she is the person who presses the enter key at 03:10 on the last Tuesday of every week after she has walked Emrys to the barrier and watched his headlights go down the hill. She has never told him there is anything to remember. She has never told anyone the sentence, and the sentence is four words long, and the first scene of this novel is her saying i
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- Non-consensual erasure and restoration of memory
- Coercive institutional cover-up by procedure
- A research ethics breach carried for eleven years
- A knowingly false entry in a safety log
- Site closure, compulsory redundancy, and lapsed professional accreditation
- A written sexual encounter inside a coercive arrangement, renegotiated aloud in full
- A nine-year-old named once, offstage, and never appearing
Cast
- R Rhosyn Vaughan Senior technician on the maser and the 1 MHz distribution, holder of one of two keys, and the person who enters 604 800 at ten past three no portrait yet
- E Emrys Tarrant Night systems engineer on cryogenics and the drives, and the man the phase step returns no portrait yet
- B Brynna Lock Head of Operations, holder of the other of the two keys, and the woman who did sixty-one of these in 2018 and 2019 no portrait yet
- D Dilys Okonjo Research fellow in phase calibration and noise spectroscopy, and the person who found the 168-hour feature no portrait yet
- F Ffion Harker Research assistant, and the person who found the 8 March 2019 H-line reel and wrote the date on the box no portrait yet