Sometime after the events of The Cabinet of Light, Honoré has come to terms with his time sensitive ability, and is even using it to his advantage: spying on a man named Brown who his wife suspects is having an affair.

As Honoré wonders where the stranger came from, Emily touches his arm thinking the same thing... and the two of them suddenly find themselves in a muddy field in the middle of nowhere.

Although never explicitly mentioned in the text, the alternative future that Emily and Honoré visit in the novella is the 1984 of George Orwell's social allegory.

In a fictional introduction to The Albino's Dancer on his website, Dale Smith suggested that Honoré inspired Orwell to write 1984 by telling him the story of The Winning Side during the Spanish Civil War.

In September 2008, Telos announced that a fan production company, Fantom Films, had been licensed to produce audiobook readings of the Time Hunter novellas for release on CD and as online downloads.