Cover of The Temporal Viewer: a glowing cube of light shows a man writing at a kitchen table long ago.
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The Temporal Viewer

IMAGINE WATCHING HISTORY

What if you could watch any moment in history, exactly as it happened?

A novel by Moises Davidescu

The Story

Quantum physicist Jay Davies has always played it safe. Then a strange sphere comes into his hands at a research company in California, and with it a machine that can show the past: real events and real people, seen as they truly were.

From California to a laboratory beneath the Louvre in Paris, Jay and the French physicist Yvonne Lefèvre race to understand what they have found. Soon the whole world wants it: a traitor inside his own company, a ruthless former soldier, the FBI, the President of France, the United Nations, and the army of a small, dangerous country ready to take it by force.

A machine that can watch history may be able to do much more than watch, and every government on Earth has secrets it would rather keep buried.

Highlights

A window on the past

Real moments, real people, seen exactly as they were. No legends, no history books, only what happened.

A mystery from the stars

The sphere was not made on Earth, and it knows far more than anyone expects.

California to the Louvre

From a physics lab in Silicon Valley to a laboratory beneath the world's most famous museum.

Everyone wants it

A company, the FBI, a president and a foreign army. Some ask, some steal, some come with guns.

Written like a film

Ninety-seven short, fast scenes that keep you turning pages.

A cat named Erwin

Named after Schrödinger, convinced his human works for him, and usually right.

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About the Author

Moises Davidescu was born in Mexico City and earned a degree in electrical engineering. In 1993 he emigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where he lives today. He came up with the idea for The Temporal Viewer and published the first version in 2022. In 2026 he returned to the novel with Claude, Anthropic's AI model, to create this revised edition, The Temporal Viewer 2.0.

Write to Me

Did the story stay with you? Tell me what you liked, what you did not, and which moment in history you would want to watch.

thetemporalviewer@gmail.com