An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore

By Eric M. Hamilton

"On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time..."

Election night, 2000: Al Gore wins in a landslide. The fireworks fade. Then the world ends-again and again and again.

Freshly minted President Al Gore is given the METTA: a deceptively sleek device from a clandestine tech outfit. Activate it, and your mind leaps back in time with memories intact of your previous life. It's meant as a safeguard for the leader of the free world. For Gore, it becomes a curse.

First, an asteroid dooms Earth in 2003. Reset. Then, Russia launches preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States. Reset. Disasters cascade: supervolcanoes bury America in ash, pandemics ravage continents, civil wars. Each fix births fresh apocalypses. Lifetimes stack into millennia as Gore, ever the dutiful statesman, grinds through Oval Office marathons, in a never-ending struggle to get things right.

But the resets reveal a deeper horror. Beneath Silicon Valley's gleaming facade lurks a visionary innovator's cavernous supercomputer, crunching humanity's data to predict doom. Its verdict? In the multiverse of infinite timelines, one constant endures: Al Gore must be president. Every reality demands it, or so it seems. Can Gore finally lose, shattering the loop, and freeing himself from eternal torment?

Eric M. Hamilton's incisive novella An Inconvenient Presidency twists time-travel tropes into a biting satire of power's futility, blending Groundhog Day's hilarious time-loop repetition with political satire anyone can enjoy. Blending real 2000 election what-ifs (complete with appendix notes) and sly nods to tech's shadowy architects, it's a swift, entertaining read for fans of political sci-fi and existential loops.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536873632
• ISBN13: 9781536873634
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"