Memory, Time & Fate: Surreal Train Fiction and a Book That Knows Tomorrow
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These novels treat memory as something you can lose, spend or be told about. The Train Between Worlds trilogy is set on an endless train where every door costs something, and every passenger is searching for someone.
TURN is a standalone about a man who wakes each morning to a book describing the day he has not yet lived, and who forgets it every night. Read together, they ask the same question from different angles: whether the story of your life is something you write or something you read.
Novels in this topic
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The Train Between Worlds
You wake on a train with no name, no past, and a ticket that reads: Destination Unknown.
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The Memory Fare
Six years after her daughter vanished, Cora finds her handwriting on a luggage tag — from a train that has never existed.
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The Forty-Year Passenger
Every door aboard costs the same thing to open: one true memory of the person you'd go back for.
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TURN
A book appears on his nightstand each morning, already describing the day he hasn't lived yet.
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Memory, time & fate: questions readers ask
In what order should I read The Train Between Worlds?
Read it in order: The Train Between Worlds (Book 1), The Memory Fare (Book 2) and The Forty-Year Passenger (Book 3). All three are out.
What does memory as currency mean?
In these books, doors and fares aboard the train are paid for in memories, so every choice has a cost measured in what you remember. See the list of books where memory is currency.
Is TURN part of the train series?
No. TURN is a standalone novel about fate versus free will and a memory that resets every night.