The Curve of Time
is a story about time travel, so feel free to jump in anywhere you want, but as a novel it’ll make more sense if you start at the beginning.
Chapter 36 — Five Out of Six
Rufus muses on the role of luck in our lives.
Followed by Chapter 36 — Five Out of Six, in which Saskia follows up on her plan to pay for her hotel with another lottery ticket.
Chapter 35 — The Weight of the Pen
Rufus compares audiobooks to written text.
Followed by Chapter 35 —— The Weight of the Pen, in which Saskia makes a note of the lottery numbers.
Chapter 34 — Biased by What Had Yet to Happen
Rufus talks about chipping away at things.
Followed by Chapter 34 —— Biased by What Had Yet to Happen, in which Saskia embraces her Dallas trip.
Chapter 33 — The Pen
Rufus describes how a certain aspect of a book’s structure can be a good metaphor for life and the world around us.
Followed by Chapter 33 — The Pen, in which Saskia wrestles with duplication from time travel.
Chapter 31 — Blobs in a Box
Rufus mulls what it means to do research.
Followed by Chapter 31 — Blobs in a Box, in which Saskia and Mica spend time looking into Saskia’s next steps.
Chapter 30 — A Bridge to Far
Rufus muses about concurrently holding contradictory ideas in your head.
Followed by Chapter 30 —— A Bridge to Far, in which Mica encourages Saskia to consider how else she can wield her superpower for good.
Chapter 29 — A Witness to Your Own Death?
Rufus spends a few words on saying goodbye.
Followed by Chapter 29 — A Witness to Your Own Death? in which Saskia’s double, Sienna, wrestles with some of the implications of time travel while heading back to LA to find her phone.
Chapter 28 — Coast-to-Coast Cabling
Rufus connects taking random walks in life with the value of exploring.
Followed by Chapter 28 — Coast-to-Coast Cabling, in which Saskia makes a grand gesture.
Chapter 27 — Clutch Move
Rufus describes a conundrum raised by the algebraic concept of dimension.
Followed by Chapter 27 —— Clutch Move, in which Mica sees an analogy between Saskia’s switching her flow through time and changing gears in a car.
Chapter 26 — A Cusp Problem
Rufus relates cusp points to various aspects of life.
Followed by Chapter 26 —— A Cusp Problem, in which Mica describes a new problem to Saskia.
Chapter 25 — Up the Coast
Rufus what writers have in common with squirrels.
Followed by Chapter 25 —— Up the Coast, in which Sienna steps out into her new life.
Chapter 24 — The Recycling Center
Rufus muses about provenance.
Followed by Chapter 24 —— The Recycling Center, in which Saskia heads to her place of work, nervous about who she might find there.
Chapter 23 — Life on a Rope
Rufus takes a bit of a risk and describes what algebraic geometry is with the example that first delighted him.
Followed by Chapter 23 —— Life on a Rope, in which Mica seeks outside expertise to make sense of time travel.
Chapter 22 — Descent on a Dish Towel
Rufus describes how mathematicians like to describe their work.
Followed by Chapter 22 —— Descent on a Dish Towel, in which Saskia elaborates on her earlier description of neural nets while she and Mica have breakfast.
Chapter 21 — Second Saskia
Rufus muses on the value of following your dreams.
Followed by Chapter 21 —— Second Saskia, in which Saskia’s double starts life anew.
Chapter 20 — Stuck in Bed
Rufus considers the different natures of time.
Followed by Chapter 20 —— Stuck in Bed, in which Mica grapples with the fact that Saskia really can slip in time, and Saskia grapples with how to get out of bed.
Chapter 19 — Cat Drop
Rufus examines the frailty of life.
Followed by Chapter 19 —— Cat Drop, in which Saskia tries taking another animal back through time.
Chapter 18 — Mica’s Kitchen
Rufus waxes lyrical again about some of the prospects machine learning is likely to open up.
Followed by Chapter 18 —— Mica’s Kitchen, in which Saskia explains to Mica how a neural net works.
Chapter 17 — Roshambo
Rufus describes the genesis of Roshambo Careens Off Script, his second novel.
Followed by Chapter 17 —— Roshambo, in which the Saskia’s grapple with who should get the date with Mica.
