Here are forty-seven time travel books published in December that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more. Happy reading!
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The Boy Who Fell Through Time
Siusaidh Ceanadach
12/1/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
Francis Patcham wins a scholarship to an exclusive school in an old castle where he becomes entranced by Latin and Ancient Greek. When in the restricted section of the old Library he falls through a swinging bookcase door and arrives in a medieval apothecary, within the same castle, but at least 200 years back in time.
He is swept up into becoming an apprentice, learning ancient medicine and it seems he cannot return to his own time unless the moon and stars align in the same way. Then there is something more he must do to make it all work. Francis finds he must make a choice.
Broken (The Breach Chronicles, Book 1)
Ivy Logan
12/1/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Romance
Broken. Broken but not lost.
She has lost everything and everyone that mattered. She has been forced to flee a power-mad king. On the run with her very survival at stake, she prepares for the day her past will catch up with her, never forgetting her vow of vengeance.
Unexpectedly she finds sanctuary and love on an island paradise. But just when she has a glimpse of happiness, the dark forces cast a powerful shadow over her life once again. An ancient prophecy has shadowed her family and now it will come to pass. Harsh truths will be unveiled.
Read Talia’s story of determination and grit as she stands against a powerful king and his fearful dragon. Will she be willing to sacrifice everything to right a wrong? What about her happily-ever-after?
Crossed Trails
Bob Blink
12/1/2017, Science Fiction/Western
Heck and Silas were independent prospectors in the old west, prowling the wilderness in search of that elusive strike that would make them rich. Then they discovered two dead men in a strange vehicle. The bodies were nearly severed in two by an unknown means inside the remarkable contraption where they had been found.
After burying the two corpses, they had searched the vehicle for clues as to who the men might have been. While they found no leads, they did find a stash of very unusual gold, and a number of weapons of unfamiliar design, which they could see no reason to leave behind. The gold they sold. The weapons they carried with them.
Several adventuresome years later, their wandering having taken them to the cattle town of Dodge City, they were stunned to encounter the two men they had buried on their way out of the Dakotas. Equally impossible, the two clearly knew who Heck and Silas were. After a couple of strange meetings with the impossible pair, they parted after exchanging gunfire.
Heck and Silas fled into the wilds, hoping never to encounter the pair again. It was not to work out that way, as over the next decade, they were to meet several times again, each time the pair seeming different, and totally unconcerned over the bad blood under which they had parted that first time. Clearly Thompson and Sanders, as the men were known, wanted something from them.
Silas believed they wanted the gold taken from the vehicle where they’d first found the two strangers, but Heck was convinced something far more impossible was taking place. The question hanging over their heads, was whether it would be Heck and Silas, or Thompson and Sanders, who would be the survivors of the repeating encounters.
The Space Between Time (The Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester, Book 4)
Bruce McFarlane
12/1/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
In these extracts from the Time Travel Diaries we find the intrepid couple enjoying a peaceful and romantic picnic by the River Rother when a motor launch turns up complete with Mr. Wells.
Apparently, a certain Mr. Tesla has conducted one of his electro-magnetic experiments, which has fractured time and dumped everyone in an alternative world of 1895. The problem is that only a few people have noticed the difference.
Mr. Wells wondered if James and Elizabeth would like to help.
The Adventure Begins (Riding the Double Helix, Book 1)
Emily Rodgers-Ramos
12/2/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction/History
What if your DNA could plummet you into the past? Join identical twins Frank and Theo Sanford and their little sister Rosie as they find themselves part of their science teacher’s covert genetic experiment based upon the coded writings of Nostradamus. Her experiment leads Frank and Rosie to travel through time, taking them on the ride of their lives, in the quest for Thomas Jefferson’s dream.
The book includes thought provoking questions to prompt discussions as well as to entice the reader to do further inquiry into the historical figures and incidents mentioned in the book.
The Princesses of Morenda
C.G. Tetreault
12/2/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
On the first day of summer vacation, best friends Emma Baker, Madison Stevens, and Jessie Roberts set off on what they think will be just another hike. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Morenda must always have three princesses to protect it. When they were born, Emma, Madison, and Jessie were marked as the next three. Now, they must find the magic keys to open the portal and travel back to save it before it’s too late.
Katie Watson and the Painter’s Plot (Katie Watson Mysteries In Time, Book 1)
Mez Blume
12/4/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Eleven-year-old Katie is sure her summer is doomed. Sheltered because of her injuries from a horse riding accident, she longs to break free on an adventure like the ones in her favourite detective novels. Instead, she’s stuck with Nan and Pop whose idea of adventure is touring National Trust properties. But when Katie discovers a secret chamber in Otterly Manor with a magical painting, she falls — literally — into a perilous adventure beyond her imagination.
Whisked back in time to the reign of James I, Katie makes fast friends with Sophia, a mature, twelve-year-old ward of Earl Buckville, Lord of Otterly Manor. With Sophia’s help, Katie learns to navigate her strange new world of lace ruffs, prim manners and strange superstitions.
But Sophia and Katie’s fun soon plummets into danger when murder strikes at Otterly Manor. With the murderer on the loose and Sophia’s family threatened, can Katie prove her detective skills before life at Otterly Manor is ruined forever? Could succeeding cost her the chance of getting back home?
The Lonely Old Record Store
Keldine Hull
12/4/2017, Children, Fantasy/Music History
A boring trip to the old record store leads to an unforgettable adventure for Piper and Max. A magical record player takes them on a musical journey throughout time. They learn about musicians they never heard of before and gain a new appreciation of the music that came before them.
The Stolen Tomorrow (The Man That Time Forgot Trilogy, Book 2)
Alan Mechem, Paul Mitchell
12/4/2017, Science Fiction
Andrew Adams has been set free. Now living in Australia, he uses his time-travel abilities for good, safe in the knowledge that the murderous Valadez is no more.
Little does Andrew know, however, that an even greater threat is about to enter his world: someone far more dangerous and powerful than any time traveller he’s encountered before. Someone with an army of unquestioning followers at his side, willing to kill for him.
From ancient, forgotten temples buried deep underground to the battlegrounds of medieval England – and far, far beyond – Andrew must use his abilities to stop this dreaded adversary… Stop him before he completes his ultimate plan.
The Vanquished of Eden (Panhelion Chronicles, Book 2)
Marlin Desault
12/4/2017, Hard Science Fiction/Military
An adventure across space and time!
In the chaos that reigns after the fall of the Imperium, the newly reformed Panhelion is splintering, as factional squabbling pits rebellious nations against the reconstituted government. President Scott Drumond works tirelessly to unify the nations of Earth and the off-world settlements under the new Senate authority, and he’s successful….
…Until a new evil surfaces, one that has lain dormant for two centuries. Fanatical remnants of the ancient Hegemon Empire, sensing blood in the waters of the weakened Panhelion government, send their armed henchmen, the revanchists, rampaging out of the Anatolian Peninsula to spread terror and war.
Worse, tentacles of this new evil reach across the galaxy to the Hyades Star Cluster, jeopardizing the tranquil planet of Niobe. Scott’s betrothed, Ariela Lavendal, Proconsul of Niobe, must now fight her own battle to protect her people from the diabolical threat out of Earth.
As the forces of the Panhelion push back the revanchist army of the Hegemon, Scott’s dream of reuniting with Ariela and his daughter Evalyn on Niobe seem within his grasp. Yet events have changed the once serene Niobe.
Now the Khepri aliens are once again swarming out of the Coma Berenices Star Cluster to threaten the Panhelion. Yet when Panhelion scientists crack the secret of the Khepri language and discover the true nature of the aliens, Scott learns that an even more startling and dangerous peril menaces the future of mankind.
1636: The Vatican Sanctions (Ring of Fire, Book 24)
Eric Flint
12/5/2017, Alternate History
Seven days in May 1636
It’s spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals—of Pope Urban’s renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican’s would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church’s senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon, where the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war.
Fortunately, Urban has up-time help. He can rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare’s theological savvy, Sharon Nichols’ medical skills, and her husband Ruy Sanchez’s keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban has a new Papal Guard in the form of Owen Rowe O’Neill’s Wild Geese, Mike Stearns has loaned the Pope a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion—just in case.
Which is prudent, since Urban and his peace initiative are not merely at risk from Borja’s assassins. There is another, more deadly, team of professional killers in town, directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before: lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro Dolor.
Dolor hasn’t come to confess murder—he’s come to commit it.
Beyond the Realm (The Mortalis Series, Book 4)
Larry Cockerham
12/5/2017, Science Fiction/Space Opera
Commander Stefanova revisits the nineteenth century to try and stop the dreaded “grandfather paradox”. Will she find Major Thomas Conrad alive? Can she save her loved ones? Can she stop the person responsible for the attacks on her and her family?
In the end, Marion has a surprise for them all.
Glimpses of Wilderness (The Glimpses Series, Book 1)
Lee Ann Ward
12/5/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Romance
No nightmares about my dad’s car crashing or my sister’s tiny face vanishing in a window of red. No, not anymore. Now when I sleep I fall into an expanse of frozen wilderness, the other life I’ve lived…
The one I’ve lived with him.
Anna experiences vivid dreams from a past-life she lived in the 1800s with her husband Robert and their children in the wilderness of the Michigan Territory. Much like her own mother grieving the man and child she lost, Anna can’t simply let go of the memories that haunt her.
But when she runs into Robert in this lifetime, a whirlwind of their past lives—and deaths—rocks her modern world to the core. What will she be willing to risk to spend every lifetime with Robert?
In the twists and turns of “repeating” their lives over and over through time, Anna must sacrifice everything for a glimpse of immortal love.
Parallel (Annum Guard, Book 3)
Meredith McCardle
12/5/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Amanda Obermann, Code Name Iris, hasn’t had the easiest life. Her father, a corrupt government agent, died when she was a baby, and she was raised by her mentally unstable mother. She’s also a member of Annum Guard, a secret government organization that travels through time to alter the course of history.
But on her last mission, Amanda made a horrible mistake. She traveled to the past and accidentally caused the death of her boyfriend Abe’s grandfather—completely erasing Abe from existence and launching herself into a parallel universe where her father is very much alive.
Desperate to set things right, Amanda is forced to go on the defensive. She must play a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with her own father as she navigates an unfamiliar Annum Guard in order to save Abe. But the further in she gets, the more she realizes that nothing is as it seems. Her father isn’t quite the monster she’d always assumed. Her mother is stable, healthy, and loving. She has real, genuine friends.
Before she knows it, Amanda finds herself in an impossible predicament—stay and live the life she’s always wanted, or return to her own timeline to give Abe the life he deserves? In this gripping conclusion to the Annum Guard series, playing with time can have deadly consequences.
Tempus Fugit
Timothy Casey
12/5/2017, Science Fiction/Erotica
Wasting Time Travel has never been Such Fun!
Veerle and Myst Solassen – two debutante princesses who love to dance and party are out to find a space pirate who has done them wrong.
There’s enough here for everyone of age to enjoy! Time Travel, Sex, Humor, Heroics, Thrills, Disco, Sex, Space Piracy, Gender Bending, Aliens really loving to have Sex and some light Opera, too.
It’s One Hell of a Ride! That’s what She said!
Empyrean (The Brin Chronicles, Book 3)
Jim Cronin
12/6/2017, Science Fiction
In this conclusion to The Brin Archives, Maliche Rocker must risk everything including his family’s reputation and even his life, to uncover the truth about the Skae. For over three hundred years the Brin have believed the Skae to be their benefactors, and the race that rescued them from extinction. But recent revelations by a group of young Kolbri, the offspring of Brin and Kolandi mating, tell a disturbingly different story.
Three Kolbri, including Maliche’s son Jontar, must use their unique abilities to telepathically connect with technology, and discover the truth about the Skae once and for all by undertaking a perilous journey through thousands of years in space and time, unravelling the history hidden from them by Skae. During this expedition, Jontar and his two companions must encounter the Gorvin, hated enemy of the Skae and supposed instigators of the current interstellar war.
What turned the Skae and Gorvin into mortal enemies? What is the true cause of the war responsible for the destruction of hundreds of worlds over thousands of years? Will Maliche and his small group find the truth and avert disaster both at home and across the galaxy? Can his wife, Ryma, hold the Brin government together long enough for Maliche to succeed? Only time will tell.
Fallen Petals (The Legend of Dalton Manor, Book 4)
T.L. Stevens
12/6/2017, Young Adult, Paranormal Fantasy/Romance
Feeling trapped and choosing what she believes to be the lesser of two evils, Ally is now faced with helping Edmund, something she had considered inconceivable. In no uncertain terms, the complexity of the magical world around her teaches her to be wary and on guard at all times. Training under the guidance of Rose and a new friend, Ally is challenged day in and day out.
Finding herself less and less preoccupied with wanting to escape, Ally focuses solely on accomplishing the task she’s been given. Then she stumbles across a long hidden secret, opening the door to an opportunity Ally can’t pass up, or so she thinks. Will the discovered secret put her in even more danger? Will it put them all in danger? Will the old saying “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” prove to be a helpful or harmful myth? Only one side will stand victorious.
Wildwood (The Hightower Trilogy, Book 1)
Jadie Jones
12/6/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Tanzy Hightower is not crazy. At least, that’s what she tells herself. Crazy looks more like her mother, who studies each sunrise with the same fascination other women give tabloid magazines in the grocery store checkout line. Crazy sounds like the woman on the radio claiming there’s a whole separate world existing parallel to our own. Still, Tanzy can’t deny the tingle of recognition she feels each time she sees her mother standing at the kitchen window, or hears the panic in the woman’s voice coming through the speakers of her father’s truck.
Tanzy intends to follow her father’s footsteps into the professional horse world. But the moment she watches him die on the back of a horse in an accident she feels responsible for, everything changes. On the first anniversary of his death, a fight with her mother drives her back to her father’s farm in the middle of a stormy night. Neither Tanzy nor life as she knows it escapes unchanged when she is struck by lightning and introduced to a world… unseen, and receives proof her father’s death was no accident.
Two strangers seem too willing to help her navigate her new reality: Vanessa Andrews, a psychiatrist who believes lightning chooses who it strikes, and Lucas, a quiet, scarred stable hand with timing that borders on either perfect or suspect. But Tanzy has secrets of her own. Desperate for answers and revenge, Tanzy must put her faith in their hands as her past comes calling, and her father’s killer closes in.
Doctor How and the Dragons (Doctor How, Book 4)
Mark Speed
12/7/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
A children’s toy comes to life. And it will do anything to get back a missing body part. But is it the only one, or are there more? Whilst Doctor Peterson of MI16 tries to find the solution, Thickett creates a monster of a problem.
With Doctor How taking a leave of absence, can Kevin and Cassandra stave off disaster long enough to get help from the most stubborn of the Time Keepers?
This book series is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. It is not a Doctor Who story.
Origin Phase (Origin Phase Cycle, Book 1)
R.T.W. Lipkin
12/7/2017, Paranormal Fantasy
Is it ever too late?
TIME
Amnesiac time travel pioneer Eli Ryerson is slowly regaining his memory. Just in time to dodge the government agents who are after his secrets.
RUNS
On the run, Eli’s now caught between his pursuers and a group of renegades determined to change the course of history.
OUT
But Eli knows that the past can’t be changed . . . even if the future depends on it.
A Stitch in Time
Senan Gil Senan
12/8/2017, Short Story Collection, Science Fiction
Six thought-provoking stories from six different genres bound by one principle – Time.
TIMELESS:
This is a heartfelt story of a child that is left feeling disassociated from life following the physical impact of an explosion and the resultant emotional trauma from the death of his mother. The story of his life unfolds as he recounts it during his final timeless moment, one of the many that befall him, causing the world around him to slow to a standstill. All these timeless moments seem to be inextricably linked in his life and anchored to one seminal event. That being the moment he first falls in love with a soul mate that makes him feel included and at peace with this heartless world which he has always despised.
A bizarre corruption in his consciousness leaves a man experiencing his life in a non-sequential jumbled order. Despite not being able to remember his name or even where he lives, he manages to get by living only in the moment. Until he encounters a particular girl who by just being in her company, allows him to make sense of his confused existence. This is a love story set against a background of distorted time. The non-sequential order of the chapter numbers reflects this, although this story can also be re-read by following the 11 chapters in sequential number order. It then becomes a completely different story; it is a matter of perspective.
An exorcist encounters a man of whom it is unclear whether he is possessed or suffering from some kind of psychosis. This is a modern horror story which shows how distorted reality can be just as frightening as the depths of hell.
When the world’s leading social network rolls out an artificially intelligent App aimed at engaging the lonelier and more socially challenged people in society, strange results enfold. Is this just a clever program or has the artificially intelligent computer program become sentient and is directing events in their lives?
This tale tells the story of a disparate set of characters who without knowledge of each other, become entwined in each other’s lives, like pawns being moved by a chess-master.
A female officer is unexpectedly awakened from deep stasis, two and a half years early on a long distance space voyage. She is joined by another crewman who is also oblivious to the reason for their premature awakening. They can return to stasis sleep but decide instead to investigate first, searching for any anomalies or problems that might need their direct intervention. Events induce a sense of paranoia when it becomes evident that they are not alone and an alien entity might be onboard and impersonating both of them. As the senior officer, it is imperative that she secures and holds the Command Bridge of the vessel against all odds.
The EL is an advanced race of timeless spiritual light beings that think and act collectively and have been assigned a protective role over a particular solar system. They must initiate and oversee the restoration of a frozen planet which once supported much life. Once its ice has retreated, their stewardship requires many of their collective to descend substantially in vibration and take up mortal physicality in order to carry out their duty on the dense planet below. However, divisions in their unity and purpose arise after they opt to manipulate the genetics of one particular species in order to turn them into a helper race of infertile automatons to which they can delegate much of their menial tasks. The heavy density of this world causes the EL many difficulties, one of which is a growing sense of individuality which threatens their collective consciousness. This individuality also threatens to infect the helper race who have been infused with DNA from the EL.
The Woman Who Seized an Empire (The Warlord, Book 2)
M.D. Cooper
12/8/2017, Science Fiction/LGBTQ
Captured, but not defeated…
Jace and the Blackadder have taken Katrina captive, but that does not mean she is contained.
Beaten, battered, barely alive, Katrina struggles to keep herself together. She knows that it is up to her to hold on, if only for Juasa’s sake. If they can to gain the trust of Jace . . . or perhaps his wife, then they just might have a chance to escape.
Together with Juasa, Katrina must work her way up the Blackadder organization from the inside if she has any hope of finding Troy and the Voyager.
But the 85th century is far different than the world Katrina left behind. The decisions she must make will not be easy, and she’ll leave a more than a little of herself behind as she travels the road to become . . .
The Warlord
The Hole in the World
J.D. Robinson
12/10/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Klem Antrim thinks he’s losing his mind. Two strangers know he’s not.
Klem’s life in the picturesque coastal town of Sea Scarp has just taken a turn for the worse. Tormented by debilitating fits of déjà vu and future-predicting hallucinations, he’s having more difficulty by the day separating reality from fantasy. Only one explanation makes sense: Klem has lost his mind.
But when a tragic car crash kills his father and knocks Klem through a hole in his world, a more troubling question comes to mind: what if he hasn’t been hallucinating at all?
On the prowl for answers, Klem catches a fleeting glimpse of his late father, leaving him more uncertain than ever of his own perceptions. With nothing to lose, Klem will set out to find out if there’s really something waiting just outside reality, hidden in plain sight.
That’s impossible, of course. So then why have others started to watch Klem so closely?
Trailer, Get Your Kicks! (The Time Travel Trailer, Book 3)
Karen Musser Nortman
12/10/2017, Fantasy
Lynne McBriar swore her vintage trailer would stay in a museum where it would be safe from further time travel. But when a museum in Texas wants to borrow it, she determines that she must deliver it herself. Her husband Kurt convinces her to take it along Route 66 for research he is doing.
What starts out as a family vacation soon turns deadly. Travel can be dangerous any time, but when your trip involves the Time Travel Trailer, who knows where (or when) you will end up?
The True Enemy (Girl Power, Book 3)
Katrina Kahler, John Zakour
12/10/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Gwen continues to fight the evil power that is taking control of humans.
In this thrilling story, Gwen and her knights are desperate to win a competition to go to a Kristi Quick’s concert. Will they get to see Kristi? And will Kristin help Gwen in her quest to stop evil interfering with humans?
Chronoscape
Roger Ley
12/11/2017, Science Fiction
Physicist Martin Riley has discovered a way to receive news stories from two weeks in the future, but the Government steps in and cloaks the technology in secrecy.
Despite Riley’s warnings, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic make radical alterations to events. The first temporal alteration saves Princess Diana, the next saves the Twin Towers, but ripples travel far ahead and disturb Earth’s future civilisation.
The Timestream must be realigned, but at what cost?
The Century Cube
Bo Boswell
12/12/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Turner and Weston are young, mischievous brothers who constantly bicker and fight with each other, but they can agree on one thing: they both enjoy games that challenge Turner to speed-solve the Rubik’s Cube. They discover a mysterious gemstone puzzle cube and, like any respectable cuber, Turner performs the algorithms to solve it.
The boys find themselves trapped in a future world, stranded amidst crumbling buildings with scorched walls, and surrounded by technologies that are amazing, but dangerous. With the help of new friends, they must work together to escape a monstrous threat they never thought possible on a journey across the exciting land in search of the one who can help them fix the cube and get back home.
Year One (Alice: The Last Founder, Book 1)
Jason Hamilton
12/13/2017, Young Adult, Superhero
What would it be like to raise a superhero?
When a mysterious organization threatens the life of their newborn daughter, Kat and Sergio must leave their quiet life behind. Their daughter, Alice, is destined to become a powerful time-traveling superhero, and many would do anything to stop that from happening.
While on the run, the family must avoid monsters, survive on their own, and accept the help of strangers, all while trying to raise their baby girl.
Can they outrun the girl’s destiny?
Year One assembles the first twelve episodes of the serial “Alice: The Last Founder”, an ongoing story about a superhero destined for greatness. The story begins at her birth and progresses in real time, where one year in the real world results in one year in Alice’s life. Follow Alice’s growth from a baby girl into the superhero she will eventually become.
Loss Paradox (New Alcatraz Trilogy, Book 3)
Grant Pies
12/14/2017, Science Fiction
What if you had the ability to start life over? To fix what was broken in the past? What if people had to die to get there?
After using the mind transfer device, Powell finds his mind has travelled thousands of years into the future and now rests in the body of Ransom, a citizen of New Alcatraz ensnared in his own struggle to survive. Confused and bleeding to death, Powell must quickly find a way to stay alive.
Meanwhile, in the year 2075, Vesa learns that Powell’s body has been taken over by a man named Ransom. With no alternatives, Vesa can only hope that her plan to trade Powell’s body for her imprisoned brother pays off, and Ransom, now caught in a fatal case of mistaken identity, has no choice but to succumb to the Ministry’s harsh torturous treatment.
Both Powell and Ransom are trapped in a world, and a body, they know nothing about. Maybe there is a purpose to all of this. Perhaps Powell is in the future for a reason. To fix something? To protect someone? Or maybe it’s a chance to undo everything that has gone wrong in the last five years? When the time comes, will Powell be willing to make the sacrifice that is necessary to set everything right once and for all?
Salient
Simon Posser
12/14/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
When four campers decide to take a short vacation in the pine forests of Mount Shasta, a potentially active volcano, in the Cascade Mountain Range of Northern California, it turns out they aren’t alone…
After a long drive through the Shasta Trinity National Forest, British M.I.T graduate, Tom Bishop and three friends, set up camp in the closed-for-season, Pine Crags Wilderness Campsite in the shadows of Mount Shasta. As they exchange legends about the mysterious mountain, something appears from the woods, which defies all logic…
At about the same time, SETI scientist Dr Lucy Davies, almost drops her coffee mug as the bank of computers she is monitoring sounds an alarm, following detection of a mysterious signal, seemingly coming from deep space. After further analysis, the discovery is even more intriguing. The signal turns out to be emanating from the continental USA, a location known as Cobalt Ridge, a glacial region on the eastern flank of Mount Shasta.
With two of Tom’s friends missing and presumed dead, following an initial investigation, he and his partner Jessica are released from the Mt. Shasta Sheriff’s Office. They soon learn however that U.K. documentary filmmaker, Richard Armstrong, is flying his film crew out to make a documentary about the events unfolding on the mountain. With NASA, SETI and the US Military responding to the rapidly developing situation, Tom and Jessica get invited back to the mountain to assist in the making of the documentary, and to search for their friends.
Meanwhile as a secret joint NASA/U.S. military mission is put in place to get back to the Moon, and the UN Security Council convene an emergency meeting to discuss the mystery signal, events on Mount Shasta become even more disturbing. Tom and his friends find themselves in a race against time to try and get to the source of the glacial signal to find out what is really going on.
Is it a hoax? A geological anomaly or a genuine extra-terrestrial signal from deep space…? Tom’s discovery defies our understanding of science however, and our place in the universe…
Steak and Baloney: The Time Traveler
Kenzel May
12/14/2017, Historical Fantasy
Reaching back from the twenty-first century to a much simpler time, when family was king, Ray Jones travels the dusty roads of Arkansas in 1856.
Encountering a number of challenges, as well as a fierce wolf-dog and bear, he wonders how long he will survive and if he will ever return home.
Time Traveling, Savior Cloning, Plus Other Inadvisable Feats (Harry Dandruff Universe, Book 1)
Doug Knell
12/14/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity amazingly proved that time is relative, especially so in humorous books. Ipso facto, this comedy scifi book on time is relatively amazing.
Once upon a time, but not in this time, in a comedy adventure dealing intimately with time, a woman could find love in the arms of a robot; a man could find death in the jaws of a genetically engineered lock picking reptile; and the dead could find a reprieve from the boredom of Eternity with the Land of the Living just a collect call away.
The handful of the world’s mega-corporations, for which most everyone works, own all the world’s nations. No one knows anymore if they’re part of a comedy troupe or a future apocalypse.
This funny world of action & adventure connects:
- Professor Harry Dandruff, a wealthy inventor with hair problems and a questionable past
- His six clones with abundant problems of their own
- A run-of-the-mill everyman-loser who’s just officially died and has nothing left to unofficially live for
- A humorous, lazy, and leering President of the United States, trying to do the minimum for his legacy in the history books
- A megalomaniac with a fake Ph.D and a plan to control the world’s religions by cloning their symbolic mascots
- A comedy rivalry between the Gay Brigade and the Lesbian Lineup for world domination – or world apocalypse
- A secret network of railtimeways spanning the eons
Decades ago, Professor Dandruff secretly cloned himself, with varying degrees of success, and learned the hard way that living with multiple underachieving clones gets you quite sick of yourself very, very quickly.
Now somehow, a religion entrepreneur knows all and is blackmailing the Professor to travel back in time with him for samples of Mr. Christ’s DNA to clone for a new enterprise. In this epochal comedy adventure of literal soul searching, the very fabric of reality and continuity is at the risk of being compromised.
Every President in funny novels learns that carrying the weight of the world for a single day can be murder on the upper back. Professor Harry Dandruff in this novel is about to learn that carrying the weight of the world across a few thousand years can be just plain murder.
The Professor has many accomplished feats to his name. A lot of them are inadvisable. Without a little luck and some dazzling ingenuity ahead and behind him in time, the Professor’s next inadvisable feat looks set to be his last.
Improbable Nazi (Parallel Nazi, Book 2)
Ward Wagher
12/15/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Alternate History
Nazi Germany is now under the control of a man from a different universe. Heinrich Schloss was bounced from 1982 Germany into a 1941 world where Hitler dies in a plane crash. In this world he is a senior Nazi, and is able to use his knowledge of history to guide the nation along a dramatically different path.
And now, as Chancellor of the Reich, he discovers he has changed the world so dramatically that his knowledge of history, as he knew it, no longer helps. He must now govern by his wits and ruthlessness. He must manipulate the British and the Americans to avoid a wider war that Germany could not win. He must ensure a homeland in Palestine for the Jews, in order to avoid a wider slaughter in Europe. And he must somehow prevent the radical, old-guard Nazis from retaking control of the government and bringing the entire nation down in flames.
Continuing the saga of a man who is tormented by a past he cannot know, and terrified by a future he can no longer predict.
Dead Girls Don’t Sing (The Undead Space Initiative, Book 2)
Casey Wyatt
12/18/2017, Paranormal Science Fiction
When former vampire stripper Cherry Cordial settled on Mars with her undead family, she thought she’d left her chaotic past behind her. After finding her mate and becoming the first vampire to give birth, she’s hoping to lead a drama-free life.
Naturally, the universe has a different plan. When mysterious undead space travelers arrive, an ancient Martian plague is released, infecting the undead. To find the cure she must return to Earth. All she needs to do is travel into the past, confront her own tangled history, and not break the space-time continuum.
But if Cherry’s learned anything, it’s that her life is never that easy.
Time for Trouble (The Adventures of Ella and Leo, Book 1)
Dave Reed
12/19/2017, Children, Science Fiction
Ella is ten, and loves inventing new things. Leo is three, and loves playing with his big sister. But sometimes being Leo’s big sister isn’t easy, especially when he keeps getting in the way of Ella’s inventions.
When Ella invents a time machine and Leo is accidentally transported back to the age of the dinosaurs, Ella must risk her life to save him. She soon realizes that not only her little brother, but the fate of the whole world is at stake.
Will Ella be able to save her little brother? Will her time machine destroy the past and the future? And will she be able to get them both home before her parents find out what happened?
Barrier Rip (Barrier Rip, Book 1)
Brian Delaney
12/21/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
Cortland Carter, a desperate and out of work computer programmer, is hired by quirky scientist Dr. Napolis. The Doctor claims he will change the world. How? He’s developed a machine that allows him to travel to parallel universes and is also on the brink of time travel.
He convinces Cortland to join up at a private science lab under a false identity to steal their research on particle physics for his project to be complete. Cortland is reluctant, but who could pass up being involved in such world changing technology?
At Quantum Physics Research Center, Cortland falls for physicist Lora Lacy. He’s never clicked so well with any woman before. Cortland must now decide if he will go through with the theft and the betrayal. And if he does, what plans does this odd doctor have with this new technology?
Cortland will soon find out what his desperation has led to and the consequences it may have for the multiverse and the integrity of his world’s timeline.
Robot Academy (Origin Phase Cycle, Book 2)
R.T.W. Lipkin
12/21/2017, Paranormal Fantasy
Brought together . . . and torn apart
HUMAN
Cynical, bitter Jack Ryerson, thirty-one years old, has lost yet another bet. This one’s landed him at Robot Academy, whose mission is to bridge the human-robot divide.
ROBOT
Naïve, idealistic Syd Birkett is the roommate Jack never wanted. And the two soon find themselves caught up in an explosive conflict, as anti-robot propaganda spreads through the school.
ALLIES
As tensions rise, Jack and Syd reach a stark realization. This isn’t school anymore. This is a fight for survival. A fight neither can afford to lose.
The First Ones There
Steven Wolff
12/26/2017, Science Fiction
A night of amateur star-gazing propels two hobby astronomers on a out of this world adventure from their backyards to the back rooms of NASA and across the solar system to uncover the mystery of the pulsating green light.
However when word leaks out about the asteroid, they discover other countries will stop at nothing in this modern day space-race to be the first ones there.
Contract Job
James Fieser
12/27/2017, Science Fiction
Seattle native Earl James Jackson, ‘Jack’ to his friends, was just looking to go back to work. He’d finally admitted to himself that he’d been spending far too much time and money soaking up jazz and booze down in the city’s tourist-oriented Pioneer Square district. Moping around like he’d been doing since his last contract tanked wasn’t paying the bills, and his back-up funds were closing in on negative numbers. So he decided he was ready for just about any contract gig he was offered; short of anything illegal or immoral, of course. Well, a guy’s gotta have certain limits.
No way, however, did he imagine that this assignment would involve chasing down a paranoid-psychotic mad-scientist-from-the-future killer among the gold fields of 1852 California. Sure, he’d had three or four remote site contracts as a Field Engineer, but this gig was going to be a way out in the booneys. Why not, though? The pay was incredible, the benny’s even better, and it was damn certain he wouldn’t be falling asleep from boredom at his desk.
Thing was, except for the very real possibility of an extremely long and very cold dirt-nap, he might not get much rest at all.
Comanche Moon Falling (The Lone Star Reloaded Series, Book 2)
Drew McGunn
12/28/2017, Historical Fantasy
Will defied history and saved the Alamo. However, before the celebration even gets started, proof of a Comanche uprising the likes of which have never been seen before force Will to scramble for a solution to keep the frontier from going up in flames. This time, he doesn’t know what the future holds.
But he might be able to find an invention to give his troops a fighting chance, assuming there’s enough time and his enemies don’t kill him or remove him from command.
The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner (Middle Falls Time Travel Series, Book 3)
Shawn Inmon
12/28/2017, Science Fiction
How many lives would you spend to find your beloved?
Dominick Davidner was murdered. Then things got worse.
Instead of going on to the afterlife, Dominick found himself back in his nine year old body, all memories of his previous life intact. All he can think about is Emily, the love of his life, left behind when he died.
Unfortunately, she is now thousands of miles away. How can Dominick find his way back to the woman he loves, and what will he say if he finds her?
Although this the third book in the series, it can also be read as a standalone novel.
It’s About Time
Jonathon Patrick
12/28/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Mystery
Sitting outside of time and space is a group, tasked with observing the Earth, and committed to maintaining the survival of the human race.
When Adam, the leader of this group, saves a little boy from an evil, enhanced being, he and his team are thrust into a series of confrontations where everything isn’t always what it seems.
Stand By Me (Time After Time, Book 2)
Judi Curtin
12/28/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Our favourite time-travelling best friends are back!
What if something happened long ago that still makes you sad? Graham is Molly and Beth’s favourite uncle, so they really want to help him fix the past – and since the girls know of a mysterious door that can take them back in time, maybe they can!
But how can they find who they’re looking for without apps or social media? And what will the girls make of the 60s, where the hairstyles are wild, the slang is weird and no one’s heard of ciabatta? And can they help Graham fix a friendship that was destroyed back in 1960?
The girls soon discover that fun with friends is just the same whatever time you live in and that real friendship lasts forever – even when you’re apart. This is an exciting story about time-travel, family, friendship and love.
Sure and Certain Shadows
H.L. Chandler
12/28/2017, Science Fiction
When a thief in the mall steals Ingrid’s purse, she is outraged, filled with anger, and determined to catch him. As she grabs him, they tumble out the exit into the parking lot. Where Ingrid’s world disappears.
She has followed the thief into an alien land. A parallel universe that will test Ingrid to her limit.
Breaking the Enchantment (Mattie McClagen Series, Book 2)
Sheila Britton
12/29/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
In the second book of the series, Mattie, Simon, Alex, Bear and Henry are on a mission to find her parents! If they thought they’d been in danger before, it is nothing compared to what’s in store for them now. Giants, mountain trolls and dragons await them and as usual, they must band together to overcome each obstacle.
To make matters worse, they also face a fast-approaching deadline. Breaking the Enchantment is full of adventure, humor and once again, is a testament to love, friendship and the true meaning of family!
The Grand Gathering (The Universe and Other Places of Interest, Book 2)
Peter Roberts
12/31/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Earthworld 9,876,543,211, Brneedfij.
After the most extravagant farewell party in the history of the cosmos, Xiana and Thrumpy—after passing through various other Earthworlds including Freeb, where Thrumpy meets his transdimensional counterpart, Shrimpy—finally make their way back to Froob, Earthworld 5,968,243, with the aid of Gelibar—the Archangel Gabriel—only to be faced by an even more bizarre family reunion…
The Paris Portal (The Compass Series, Book 1)
Anne Bashore, M.E. Wilson
12/31/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Daphne Seidler is a Traveler, one of few uniquely gifted individuals who can move through time, and is charged by the enigmatic Society to locate lost antiquities throughout the ages.
Her latest mission in the 1920’s challenges everything she believes when she meets Julien Lefèvre, son of a Parisian crime boss, and inadvertently prevents his death. Torn between her love for him and her duty to preserve history, she is forced to decide his fate.
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New Time Travel Books – November 2017
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New Time Travel Books – July 2017
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