together in one volume! the first four books of the epic multi-part time-travel mystery series, the anachronistic code! it is april, 1985, and seventeen-year-old josh donegal has just woken up. now, normally, this wouldn't be all that unusual but, when josh went to sleep last night, it was 2035 and he was making the best of a dystopian existence in the wake of an unimaginable global catastrophe. as josh readjusts to being a teenager in the 80s again, he notices that things are not exactly the same this time. there are words out of place in the pop-culture of the day. words that form a message that just might be what he needs to keep that awful future from happening again. the anachronistic code is told in dual narratives, each one set in a different era. in one time stream, josh remembers what life will be like under authoritarian rule in 2035. in the other, josh tries to acclimatize to life in 1985, even as he decodes a mysterious message that tells him to follow clues, the first of which is hidden in the shadow of a legendary oak.