Review of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert

Family and heartbreak stretch through the eternity of this story as one man finds himself jumping through time. First things are bewildering yet don’t upset his life, but as the jumps grow and grow, he starts to lose everything and everyone he held dear.

Scott Treder’s son, Lyle, refuses to give up on his father, constructing ways to attempt to stop the process and dedicating his life to Scott. We travel with them, experiencing the world through the millennia as time stops having meaning.

A wonderful sci-fi novel that pulls at your emotions, asking questions about family, love, survival, the greater meaning of existence as well as the meaning of the simpler things in life. The jumps through time were filled with such an astute balance of sadness and hope, the story is so well crafted that it lingered with me for days as I examined my own life.

Published on 09.06.2026 by Tor

Reviewed by Rebecca

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