Skip

What if prison wasn't a place but time itself? In a future ruled by predictive justice, punishment no longer waits for crime. Instead, it erases you from the present. Farris Shaw was a respected engineer, a husband, and a father until an algorithm decided he was a future threat. Without proof, without appeal, he is sentenced to a Skip: forcibly displaced eighty years into the future. His family is left behind. His life is declared irrelevant. When Farris awakens, the world has transformed into a cold technocratic dystopia governed by Archon, an all-seeing regime that controls society through surveillance, artificial intelligence, and fear. "Skippers" like him are treated as dangerous anomalies stripped of rights, hunted, and exploited for their knowledge. As Farris struggles to survive in a future that never waited for him, he is pulled into an underground resistance fighting to dismantle the very system that destroyed his life. With the help of defectors, rebels, and those Archon tried to erase, Farris uncovers a terrifying truth behind the Skip program one that proves his sentence was never about justice, but control. To expose Archon, Farris must risk everything: his fragile hope of reunion, his remaining humanity, and the possibility that some systems can only be destroyed from the inside. Skip is a gripping science-fiction thriller about time, loss, and resistance where the greatest crime is not what you've done, but what you might become.