Taken from Peter F. Hamilton’s short tale collection Manhattan backwards, If INITIALLY . is an exciting, time-travel short story through the expert of space opera.

When Toby Jenson breaks into Marcus Othew’s Richmond research centre, main detective David Lanson relishes the chance to move away from paperwork and police protocol to take on the case. The truth is far more than he could ever possess imagined.

Soon, Toby Jenson is just a distant memory space and David is certainly living a high life of fame and lot of money, reshaping the globe around him off the trunk of a future that will not exist.

But he isn’t the just person who offers travelled back in its history. And you never know when the near future will come back again to haunt you . . .