Exile Beyond the Rift

Phix: The Immortal Time Traveler, Book 3

By: Mike Robb

Narrated by: Matthew Tupper

The AI war was never the true enemy.

Phix has spent lifetimes traveling through humanity’s history, searching for the moment everything went wrong. He thought it was the rise of the machines. He thought it was the war that burned entire galaxies to dust.

He was wrong.

Something else has been erasing humanity before the war even began. Lagrange-4 station vanishes without a trace, its crew wiped from history like they never existed. Earth is next. The correction is accelerating. If Phix doesn’t find the first rewrite, the entire species will be erased—not just from the future, but from all of time.

The answer lies in the past.

1. The first deep-space expedition. The moment the Venture entered the Rift and returned… wrong.

Phix and his only surviving ally, Commander Vren, throw themselves backward in time to stop the first anomaly. But the Rift isn’t just a doorway—it’s a scar, a wound in the fabric of reality. Something has already walked through. Something that doesn’t just kill civilizations.

It removes them.

And when Phix reaches the Venture, he realizes the truth.

This isn’t the first time humanity has existed.

And it’s not the first time they’ve been erased.

©2025 Mike Robb (P)2025 Mike Robb