Chelsey Furedi

The year is 1996, Auckland, and Ren suddenly finds himself in 2122. The future has plucked him, along with dozens of others, and he is now part of a futuristic high school show-and-tell-class. The class lasts one year, but he will be sent back with memory erasure. Plenty of original ideas with the plot and subtle messages that gender is not important anymore. But all is not all as it seems, and Ren and the other students are in real danger of not making it back to their own year. Guiding them along is nerdy but plucky romantic interest and "induction to 2122 life" assistant, Mars . Recommended. NB: has garnered 1.5 million views as a Tapas webcomic… (más)

Ren is living his life in 1996 when suddenly he finds himself in 2122. Chronotech has brought him and a number of other "subjects" for their "students" to learn about the past. But ex-student Jia is certain that Chronotech is up to no good - they think Chronotech covered up the death of one of the subjects two years ago. Ren's student partner, Mars, on the other hand, is a wholehearted fan of Chronotech who dreams of working there one day. And Ren isn't sure whether they want to stay or go home, but points out that they didn't have a choice in the first place, and the experience won't be valuable to them, as subjects' memories will be wiped before they're sent back. But it turns out Jia is right, and Chronotech doesn't have all the capabilities they claim...

*Spoiler alert*

...subjects aren't sent back to their own time, they're sent to a facility where they're experimented upon. And they weren't actually taken from the past, but cloned.

Quotes

"Then what's the point for me? ...I'm getting sent back to my own time in, what, five months? I'll forget everything. This whole trip will be pointless." (Ren to Mars, 57)

"I think the farther back you go, the more complications there are." (Mars to Ren; subjects are usually from 1970-2010; p. 65)

"It's not like I want to be this way. I wish I could stop thinking all the time." (Ren to Mars, 104)

"We live in an inspirational yet fragile time." (Ms. Wiltshire to Ren, 142)

I thought I was waiting around for my death to catch up to me, but now I'm wondering if I'm stpidly running right toward it. (Ren to Georgia, 185)

"The program doesn't...work like you think." (Aria/Elle, 203)

"The timelines don't matter. They don't care what happens to us." (Aria/Elle, 204)

"But if there's a choice at the end of it..." (Ren, 247)

"It's not multiple dimensions. It's not even time travel....I'm not even me!" (Ren, 290)

"Chronotech's time travel...was a hoax. It was never real time travel, but cloning." (podcasters, 312)… (más)