Redundancies and Potentials

by Dominique Dickey

All redundancies and potentials must be disposed of in accordance with Agency guidelines. This ensures that we can continue to use TimeFax to protect our communities, and better the lives of future generations.



Aster works for the Agency, a private police force that uses time travel to stop crimes before they happen. Unlike most operatives, Aster and her sister Isadora can time travel without a TimeFax machine. Which would be pretty great...except that everyone, even Aster's own clone, keeps lying to her.



As everything she's believed about the Agency and her life starts to unravel, Aster has to decide who to trust, if the Agency is worth saving-and whether she really wants to see the whole timeline.



Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.

Genres: Science Fiction, Novella

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2025

Reviews

[Nathaniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have such a love for weird time travel books. Especially when they make the time travel uncomfortable. In this one, time travel involves death. This story is spread throughout weird timelines and it explores the cost of time travel and also the weird relationships we can build with those around us. The writing was phenomenal. I can’t wait to read more from the author.

[Venneh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a quick fast novella that hits you like a jab and has you sprinting alongside the characters. The frameup is that a girl and her sister are agents of a force that tries to prevent crimes from happening using time travel. Except it's not all what it seems, and it STARTS with our main and her sister killing each other to ensure proper disposal of duplicates. This is dark, and hilarious, and the ride as the truth starts to be unfolded is hard and fast. I would love to see more of this if Ms. Dickey chose to expand it, but this is still a hell of a novella and highly recommended.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Time travel, clones, evil corporations, fax machines. This was such an interesting speculative fiction novella, where time travel means killing your double, and everyone is keeping secrets. I picked this up because I loved Dickey’s short story in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity- after this novella, I’ll be first in line for whatever they release next.

[Millie Abecassis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put it down. One of the best novellas I've ever read. Five stars.

[Ladz · Rating 5 out of 5]

More words to come

If you're reeling from the Severance finale, I highly recommend picking this up.