The Isochron Treatment by Gregg Stewart (6 November, 2026)

One experimental drug. One last chance at freedom. Feiyu “Theo” Smith doesn’t remember murdering four people. The evidence collected by the DNA-processing drone says otherwise. Now he’s languishing in San Quentin with no contact from family or his former fiancé for three long years. It’s 2044 and in the dystopian reality of New California Republic, condemned inmates can volunteer for experimental drug testing to avoid lethal injection. Researchers claim the revolutionary therapy known as the Isochron Treatment will rewrite the man’s immune response. But the vivid, horrific nightmares he experiences while under the drug’s effects lead him to suspect it may be rewriting his past, forcing him to remember things he does not wish to remember. It’s either that, or he’s going insane. Or maybe, just maybe, the drug’s main side-effect is not nightmares, but time travel. Is there a chance he could prove his innocence by going straight to the scene of the crime?