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The Traveler

Out June 9, 2026!

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US – MacMillan

UK – https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joseph-eckert/the-traveler/9781035084074

“Joseph Eckert has used his enviable imagination to take the reader on a fabulous journey through a multitude of futures, both awesome and horrific, until you reach the ultimate end. Seriously recommended.” – Peter F. Hamilton, bestselling author of Pandora’s Star and Salvation

The Traveler follows a Madison, Wisconsin computer programmer named Scott Treder who, without warning, begins jumping forward through time. The first time he travels 24 hours into the future; at the same time the next morning he travels 48 hours forward; then 4 days; then 8 days, 16, 32… As his life and marriage unravels, Scott teams up with his genius son Lyle – just 10 years old when the transits begin – and attempts to find a means of stopping what’s happening. But despite Lyle’s multilayered cleverness and ingenuity, Scott continues traveling relentlessly forward, and the world grows increasingly stranger around him. As he struggles to survive, Scott becomes a religion, a hoax, a terrifying figure of prophecy, a vague figment of historical trivia, and both a witness to and a shaper of the future.

“If you loved books like The Time Traveler’s Wife, then you must read this story. It’s equal parts a harrowing time-travel novel and a family drama that will tear at your heart. It’s one of my favorite debuts this year. Do not miss it.”—James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestseller of A Dragon of Black Glass

“The Traveler is high-concept adventure fiction at its best. It’s compelling, full of heart, and contains some scenes of truly haunting beauty. But more than anything this novel is addictive as hell—at every point on Scott Treder’s fabulous journey I was desperate to know what happened next!”—Gareth Brown, USA Today bestselling author of The Book of Doors

“Moving and profound … a story that’s heart-rending yet a powerful cry of hope.”—Claire North, author of Ithaca

“A bold, ultimately uplifting saga of one man’s accelerated journey into an unknowable future and its impact on the young boy who will one day change the world.”—Shelf Awareness