Here are forty-seven time travel books published this past month that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more. Happy reading!
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Holy Blood (Eden Grey Mysteries, Book 2)
Kim Fleet
7/1/2017, Mystery
Today: when a skeleton is discovered in the grounds of Hailes Abbey, alongside an artifact supposedly destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, TV producer Lewis Jordan comes to Cheltenham to make a documentary about the relic, but murder is close at hand. Called upon to track down a poison pen writer, private investigator Eden Grey soon finds herself on the hunt for a killer that will lead to revenge, espionage, and bloodshed. 1571: a contract killer is sent to Hailes Abbey to remove a priest suspected of plotting against Elizabeth I. But he has his own motives for murder.
Shadows in Time (National Time Standards Agency, Book 1)
Rick Rogers
7/1/2017, Science Fiction
14 members of the National Time Standard Agency go back in time to 1963 to videotape the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Only 13 make it back to the present time.
A secret government agency uses recently developed and (well, almost) perfected technology to travel back in time to Dallas in 1963. Karen O’Neil and a team from the Agency are there with specialized equipment to videotape the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an attempt to prove once and for all who shot the President. Strict guidelines at the Agency forbid the new tool from being used to alter the past.
The flashback to Dallas goes well until suddenly the team discovers that one of the crew members has has chosen to walk away from the flashback and stay in 1963; but why? The team can not stay in 1963 to find out. They must return to the present without their missing crew member.
Up and coming Air Force Officer Trent Tucker is chosen as the replacement crew member. As he and the rest of the team at the government Agency try to discover why one crew member decided to stay in 1963 they discover that the defection has changed history in a way that resulted in the death of tens of thousands of people in the Middle East. Now they must go back to 1963, find the crew member and try to convince him to return to the present time to avoid the change to history.
Going back in time turns out to be the easy part. Can Trent avoid being caught by the CIA, who really doesn’t want the question answered, and avoid injury for himself and the rest of his team?
Tregarthur’s Crystal (The Tregarthur’s Series, Book 4)
Alex Mellanby
7/1/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
Trapped in the wrong time, Alvin and Jenna’s only hope lies with Miss Tregarthur’s crystal. But can they follow her in an age of horses and steam trains? Even if they do find her, the crystal is failing and the answers may not be close to home.
As they start to uncover the full horror of Miss Tregarthur’s mind they realise how far she will go to control time. Will Alvin escape the future she has planned?
The storm broke. The wind screamed into a gale again hurling itself across the moor, whipping up mud and stones in its path, hail burst out of the storm clouds.
‘Nothing happens without the crystal.’
Tregarthur’s Crystal is the forth and penultimate book in the Tregarthur’s Series
A Rebel’s Stone (Stone Ends, Book 2)
P.T. McHugh
7/4/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
Jason Evans, newly minted Keeper of the Black Stones, defeated Lord Dresden in the War of the Roses, and saved Medieval England. He knows that much. But the fight isn’t over. Not even close. Because Dresden escaped, taking Katherine with him and disappearing into the mists of time. Jason doesn’t know what evil Dresden has planned, but he does know that he can’t rest until he’s found the man. And saved Katherine.
Within days of his homecoming, the stones tell him that Dresden’s in colonial America, threatening to end the Revolution before it even begins, and bring the new nation to its knees. And then they give him a second message: he has to move quickly, or risk the thread of time itself. Now, with Paul and Tatiana at his side, Jason must once again race into the past to save the world. And this time, he’s jumping blind, pushing the stones to their limit, and asking them to do something they’ve never done for him before.
Will he and his friends make it into the past at all? Will they find Dresden, stop him, and save the Revolution itself? Or will they fail, and take America – and the world – down with them? Follow the time travelers from the critically acclaimed Keeper of the Black Stones as they fight for right, freedom, and the fate of the world in this new romp through time.
North (History Interrupted, Book 3)
Lizzy Ford
7/4/2017, Fantasy/Myths and Legends
The past is waiting.
Josie Jackson is whisked further into the past, to the era of Vikings and the (almost) eternal winters of Norway. Carter, the mastermind behind her foray through time, reveals that she’ll be remaining there for six years – assuming she survives the first winter. To complicate matters, Josie has an unexpected health condition, one that threatens her life more than the frigid cold, Viking raids and wild animals.
After un-creating Taylor and leaving Batu in the Mongol era, Josie wants nothing to do with any other man, especially not the Viking warrior she’s engaged to shortly after dropped into a fjord in front of his village. Not everyone is as he seems in this era, from her reluctant new husband, to the mystic – scorned by the rest of the village – whose futuristic visions are too accurate to be divine, to Carter, the evil genius who’s tormented her through three eras of history.
When she finally learns the truth behind why he chose her, she understands too well what the stakes of this game really are.
Humans and Other Aliens: Book 2
Alexander Winzer
7/6/2017, Science Fiction
Jon, Delta and his team are back in book two of the ‘Humans and other Aliens’ series to face an even more deadly enemy. Get ready for a mind-bending ride where good clashes with ultimate evil, where ideas of time and space dissolve into universal truth, where time travel meets genetic engineering, and where classical sci-fi bonds with spirituality. Experience alien creations you have never encountered before, fierce and deadly, but at the same time kind, understanding and compassionate.
“Erin felt the wheel of time as an invisible weight on her shoulders. She was not a creature of time. She was not used to it tugging at her, forcing her boundlessness into frontiers shaped by ideas of man, creatures who lived in the artificial dimensions of time and space, who followed beliefs of life and death, and who lived in self-made isolation, beings who had managed to turn against their own kind. Harvesting humans was easy. Their physical form was weak; it was no match for her godlike strength. It took her a while to understand why other humans got so upset when one of their kind was harvested. Wheat did not complain when its neighbor was cut down, reduced to its essence only to be reborn in a different form.”
Crown of Ashes (Celestra Forever After, Book 4)
Addison Moore
7/7/2017, Paranormal/Science Fiction
They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer. At this juncture of my life, I prescribe to both. But who is my enemy? Who is my friend? The lines have blurred and suddenly they are one and the same.
Betray me once, shame on me. Betray me twice, my wrath will fall on you.
You have betrayed me.
I’m coming for you, Gage Oliver.
And I’m bringing Chloe Bishop with me.
Skypunch (Skypunch Chronicles, Book 1)
Logan Castle
7/9/2017, Science Fiction/Superheroes
It’s New Year’s Eve and I’ve only got my fourth drink to keep me company…
I’ll be honest; I’ve made some terrible choices in my life. Decisions I knew were wrong, but I made them anyway.
My most recent transgression, however, was by far the worst and also the reason I was burying my face in alcohol on a night where I should’ve been celebrating. What did I do, you might be wondering? I cheated on the love of my life, the only woman who ever really understood and accepted me. And now she’s gone.
No, this isn’t the story about how I joined some 12-step program and turned my life around. It’s not even the story about how I won the girl back. But it is the story of what happened next: when the hands of the clock tattoos on my forearms began to turn.
It was on that night when I began to realize everything I thought was true, really wasn’t. It was the night that redefined reality as I knew it, the night when I stared into the abyss…only to see my own face leering back at me.
Since then, I’ve done the unbelievable–I’ve shattered the barrier separating time and space; I’ve visited strange worlds and walked in alternate realities; I’ve been to the place where time itself stands still. And I’ve beheld the vastness of the Multiverse, the roof under which countless worlds exist and endless possibilities become reality.
You’re probably wondering how some jerk like me could’ve landed such a cool gig? Well, it’s not really all it’s cracked up to be because the Multiverse is under immediate threat of annihilation and I’m caught in the eye of the storm.
My name is Isaac Kent. And this is my story.
Quantum Nova
Joe Dacy
7/9/2017, Space Opera
They came out of the Void, four concentric spheres traveling at the speed of light, unseen, and, in fact, invisible, obeying none of the physical laws known to Man.
Eight years after the destruction of the colony world of Isan, the Han Hegemony Star Carrier White Dragon and the Alliance Battle Cruiser Aquila feel the wrath of this implacable force. In 2244, the Han and the Alliance — two star empires separated by opposing cultures — find they must work together to save the Earth and their colonies from Isan’s fate.
But there are other human forces which seek to thwart their desperate collaboration. The pocket carrier Ilihlosi, the Panther, pounces at every turn, stalking the two warships on an unfathomable mission of its own.
As the Event roils the bizarre world of quantum physics, the Hand of Orion, Betelgeuse, takes its swipe at all of Humanity. Facing extinction, two shipboard scientists must solve the mystery of a new horror in the Universe: a Quantum Nova.
Same Self
Brad Rayland
7/9/2017, Western/Science Fiction
Due to the horrors, he witnesses in the conflicts of the past; a time-traveling soldier escapes to the old west in order to live as far away as possible from a global conflict that erupts in 2031. Fearing that the technology he used to travel back in time could be lost; the same organization who employed him must now send someone after him. However, in order to locate this man in the year 1887; they will need to enlist the help of someone who not only possesses similar skills but also knows him better than anyone and even thinks like him. Who better than himself?
Same Self tells the story of the second Todd York, who is found fighting in the future conflict his previous self so rigorously tried to prevent. Todd’s life is saved by this secretive organization, and in return, he must travel to the 19th century American west to seek out his original self. Todd now finds himself in an advanced facility located in the North Pole; populated with young scientists, a mysterious CIA operative, and a beautiful historian whom Todd begins to suspect may have been in love with his original self. Todd will embark on a journey through time, where he will encounter a cold-blooded version of himself he never thought could have existed, and who he fears he may soon become.
Genetic Abomination
Dane Hatchell
7/10/2017, Science Fiction
Reptilian aliens alter human evolution, turning mankind into beast-like hybrids carrying a genetic flaw dooming them to extinction. Attempting to resurrect the human race, the new men of Earth have one success. His name is Tarik. His father was a mass of goo, and his mother a petri dish. The aliens will soon put the first ever time machine online. With a plan to hijack the device and use it to stop the aliens from ever finding Earth, Tarik and a rogue band of human-hybrids battle for control of the ultimate weapon.
But usurping the time machine is only the first hurdle. 21st century Earth presents unforeseen dangers. The alien probe set to discover Earth targets a remote national forest in Missouri. Cryptids haunt the woods. Even more dangerous, the lure of fame and fortune entice hunters armed with high power weapons into the area.
Genetic Abomination weaves a dynamic tale of Earth’s future and present. Mech-armored warriors clash, and alien kinetic weapons blast, in this sci-fi, action-adventure, cryptid tale!
Contribute (Holo Series, Book 2)
Kristy Acevedo
711/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
The holograms lied to everyone on Earth and only Alexandra Lucas knows the truth. Now she’s trapped in the year 2359 without family or friends worse, without her anxiety medication. Alex attempts to reconcile the marvelous scenery, technological advances, and luxurious living with the knowledge that the holograms weren’t being completely honest what else are they lying about?
With a secret that could shatter her society, Alex tries to find her place among strangers, convicts, and a rebellion striving to bring the holograms down. Alex struggles to find the best way to reveal the truth and reunite with those she loves. But when surrounded by beauty and every convenience, Alex wonders if truth becomes irrelevant in a perfect world
Dream Me
Kathryn Berla
7/11/2017, Young Adult, Romance
Every night Babe dreams of a boy she’s never met before named Zat. But Zat is no ordinary daydream. He’s actually a human from the distant future, who has travelled back in time to be with Babe in the only way that he can be―in her dreams.
But the dreams leave Babe more and more tired and pained each morning. Zat is determined to help her, even if it means never sharing dreams with her again.
Time Crash (Time Riven Series, Book 3)
Jonathan Seyfried
7/11/2017, Science Fiction
Chronological warfare consumed the earth.
Cities crumbled.
Temporal disturbance storms wiped out whole nations.
Millions suffered from the psychological effects of broken chronology, becoming time riven. The fallout from the chronological attacks plagued families around the world: causing missed siblings, children whose parents never existed, and the erasure of fateful chance meetings.
As a U.S. Senator, Daniel Macon helped President William Melford to rebuild the nation and to restore the hope that the future could be changed.
Then, without explanation, the attacks stopped. After ten years of peace, Daniel Macon came to believe in their victory over the future.
The story of Daniel Macon and his son, Devin Macon, concludes in this, Volume 3 of the Time Riven Series. With the encouragement of his new Chief of Staff, Carla Holcomb, and his half-sister, Theresa Ford, Daniel tempts fate by running for President in the Election of 2048.
Will his son ever forgive him?
In Time I Dream About You
Gene Grant
7/11/2017, Novella, Young Adult, LGBT
Gavin Goode was a star athlete and a good student until one catastrophic decision destroyed his future. As a member of the savage street gang the Cold Bloods, Gavin ran afoul of the leader, Apache, a bigot determined to punish Gavin for his sexuality.
After being framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Gavin faces a prison sentence—and the promise of relentless rape and torment. With his spirit almost broken, Gavin learns his beloved father has suffered a near-fatal assault. But a friend appears when Gavin needs him most. Cato has been masquerading as a prison guard when in reality he is a time traveler—one with the ability to wipe the slate clean for Gavin… and his father.
But changing the past will threaten the future for many innocent people. Gavin finds himself trapped between saving his father and himself or accepting the steep price of preserving the time stream.
Doomsday Destroyed (Doctor Who: Time Splicer, Book 8)
Cour M.
7/12/2017, Science Fiction
Queen Nefertiti has the Tenth and Fourth Doctors at her mercy. Both have to convince her to believe that they are the Doctor, because when she met him, he had a different face. Eventually she joins forces with them and helps them learn how to defeat the Urchin that is destroying parts of Australia.
Along the way, they get assistance by Martha, Leela, John Riddell, and a strange alien named Isurus. However, there is no rest for the wicked when Ten and Martha fall through Ten’s timeline again and they end up in the last place that they would expect. Will they stick together, or will it drive them apart? Here comes the next installment in the series.
The Time Trousers of Professor Tempus (Captain Space Hardcore Adventures)
Michael Ronson
7/12/2017, Humor/Science Fiction
Time.
What is time? Why is time? How is time? When is time? Also, what is time?
Important questions one and all, but for Captain Space Hardcore- intergalactic adventurer, full-time hero, raconteur, accomplished oboist- there is a more pressing question: how do you fight a time travelling madman who wants to end your life?
How does one fight a man who can bend time as easily as a chimpanzee bends a hose (i.e- quite easily)? How can you stop a man who can transport back to find you as an infant, then fire you into the sun? How to best a villain who can wipe out your great grandfather? Or worse, your great-grandfather’s great-grandfather?!
If you’re Captain Space Hardcore then the answer is simple: punch him in his big smartarse face.
But the journey of face-punchery will be a treacherous one. From the Ripper-addled streets of Victorian London, to the high-tech super prison deep in the heart of the future, the quest for Professor Tempus will rip the Captain and his trusty manservant Ebenezer Funkworthy through all of the time/space continuum and beyond in a thrilling adventure that critics are already calling “not fit for review. Please stop emailing us.”
So if you have the wit and the fortitude to come on this journey of temporal twisting tension and clock-blocking thrills then waste not a second longer, dear reader, and dive into the time travelling trousers of Professor Tempus!
Syndicate Wars: Fault Line (Seppukarian, Book 3)
Justin Sloan, Kyle Noe, George Mahaffey
7/13/2017, Science Fiction
The battle between the Syndicate alien invaders and the forces on Earth continues.
The Space Marines and the Resistance have formed an uneasy alliance, but struggle to put aside old difference as they work to formulate a plan of battle, including a sneak attack on a Syndicate outpost that may hold a clue to turning the tables on the aliens.
Meanwhile, Samantha is confronted by a mysterious new figure that recognizes abilities in her that she never knew she possessed.
The Potentate watches over everything, biding his time, working feverishly to manipulate the actions of Quinn and the others in the present and in past loops of time. Can Quinn and her warriors stop the Syndicate before the Potentate’s master plan is revealed and put into action?
A Warrior’s Path: Alpha (A Warrior’s Path Trilogy, Book 1)
Keith C. Wade
7/13/2017, Science Fiction
A Warrior’s Path: Alpha is a sci-fi, adventure- thriller, that spirals through two time periods, two nations at war, and one unlikely hero, who’s simple words may unravel the fabric our reality.
Keith Wade is a sensitive 32 year old substitute teacher. An insecure, young man who’s scared as hell to become a father in a few months …until she crosses his path. When an old homeless woman who claims to be from the future warns him that demons called the “Onyx” followed have her through time with the sole purpose of killing him before he ever tells the tale…
The tale of Mojo Symia. A tale of Kemet and New Senegal. The tale of Shara Malise’. A tale set 375 years from now. The tale that must be told. These two, and all those they care for, are caught in a maddening labyrinth of terror, tragedy and the lust of destruction fueled by the one called The Pinnacle…their only hope, to find and follow…A Warrior’s Path
Tomorrow Is Gone
Aline Riva
7/14/2017, YounScience Fiction/Romance
What starts as a weekend at the coast ends with a storm and taking shelter in a tunnel, when lightning strikes Emma is separated from her friends and finds herself in a nightmare future world where a war is raging. Saved by a young general named Ramsea, she is given shelter at his home in an underground complex of tunnels where she is shocked to learn more than two centuries have passed by, and it seems the world is at constant war.
Alone and afraid in this strange future world, she and Ramsea become close, spending a night of passion together as Ramsea vows to try and open up the crossing point in the tunnel to enable her to go home, as he decides to go with her, for the sake of his young son Swift, who has never known life without conflict.
But just as the tunnel fires up once more, Ramsea is shot in the head by an enemy sniper, just as time drags Emma back, with her last memory of Ramsea being the sight of him lifeless with his son weeping over his body.
On returning to her own time her companions are missing and eventually presumed dead – and no one believes her story of travelling to the future, so she stops talking about it. Twenty years pass by and one night a storm blows up, a storm the likes of which Emma has only seen once before… Venturing back into the tunnel, as lightning strikes she crosses back to the future earth and finds herself in the middle of a terrifying battle where fire is raging and here, twenty years have also passed by.
Then through the smoke steps a figure – a man she is amazed to see is Ramsea, he is older, battle scarred and the bullet wound to his head is repaired with cyborg wiring.
After taking her to safety and a joyful reunion, she meets his son – now a man and forever scarred by the memory of his father’s shooting twenty years before.
Through Ramsea and Swift she learns Ramsea was saved after the shooting by a flier from the mysterious Gateway City – a place they soon learn they must return to, if Ramsea is to survive after a tunnel cave in damages his cyborg repair unit.
Emma then embarks on a journey with Ramsea and Swift and Ramsea’s youngest daughter Flame to search for the elusive Gateway City – along the way they must cross strange lands, meeting enemies and old friends as they face danger and the unknown in search of their destination, as Emma wonders how Ramsea will react when she finally finds the right moment to tell him the reason why she cannot stay in his world, as she wonders if the love that time put together will be torn apart, or will theirs be a love that even time itself can not destroy?
Lost Sentinel (Earth Survives Series, Book 1)
R.R. Roberts
7/15/2017, Science Fiction
Brothers Coru and Payton Wisla pursue fugitive Moses Zhang through a sabotaged Time Bore to 2026 in a desperate bid to stop him from destroying their 2341 world. Coru arrives alone in 2036, ten years too late and in a devastating pandemic not in the histories. Civilization is now all about survival. He has one shot at restoring the future: find Wren Wood, save her father’s vital work upon which Coru’s world was constructed.
Can he restore the future? Does it even exist anymore? If it doesn’t, how is he still here?
The Ghost Factory (Ghost Factory, Book 1)
Jordan Vezina
7/15/2017, Paranormal
An energy source is discovered in the air all around us, limitless, clean and usable for any purpose. Months later, a team of scientists finally deconstruct the nature of the energy, and things begin going from bad to biblical.
The energy source is composed of the souls of the damned, and a well meaning world wide rescue effort is mounted to extract as many souls from hell as possible and deliver them into faceless human clones called “Blanks”. In the midst of this effort, signs of the coming apocalypse begin manifesting, and three different people hold the keys to stopping it.
In New York City the Devil ascends from below with his porter Joseph Stalin for some much needed psycho-therapy with Doctor Richard Wilburn. What the Psychologist doesn’t know is that Lucifer has an agenda other than his own mental health.
In Brooklyn, Force Recon Marine Nick Shelter responds to the call of his childhood friend Doctor Michael Davies to meet him and a team of SEALs tasked with attempting to reverse the coming hellfire. Time travel has been hacked (sort of) and Nick will need to go back to nineteen ninety one in an attempt to undo the ripple effect Doctor Davies caused when he discovered the energy source in Bolivia.
In Missoula Montana, former Police Chief Frank Dickinson spends a night evading government officials in an effort to keep a Blank alive, but this is a clone with a very unique secret, and the war profiteers will stop at nothing to put both of them in the ground.
Amidst all of this, battle lines are drawn within the United States Government, and even if these three men can avert the apocalypse, they may not be able to stop a second American civil war, or an army of Blanks about to cut loose their shackles.
On to Oregon… By Time Machine
Donna Scofield
7/15/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fantasy
Eleven-year-old Cliff’s dad was independently wealthy, which enabled him to spend his life exploring time travel. Cliff and his friend, Sam, “borrow” his newly-perfected time machine to experience first-hand something they’ve studied in school: the trek West on the Oregon Trail.
Cliff planned ahead, and thought he’d prepared for everything, but there are still some instances when their ruse is almost exposed. They experience death, fear, hunger, thirst and weariness. They also learn to love the young family that provides shelter in exchange for the boys’ help.
Time Without
Veronica R. Tabares
7/16/2017, Adventure/Humor
Vanessa is a strong, independent woman. Or she was, until she awoke in a world strangely changed. And when her husband and father of her children is in trouble, Vanessa realizes it is up to her to figure out what went so wrong in the world.
Vanessa’s journey takes her to the Department of Temporal Adjustment, the department tasked with handling all time travel, where she and her spunky kids go on a hilarious adventure through time—all while traveling incognito.
The Pages of Time (The Pages of Time, Book 1)
Damian Knight
7/16/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a shocking terrorist attack, sixteen-year-old Sam Rayner wakes from a coma to discover that he has developed seizures during which he is transported into the body of his past or future self.
Can Sam and his friends somehow defeat the sinister forces that want to use his powers for their own ends? Can they manage to save Sam’s family from violent deaths that are already in the past – and maybe also win the girl he loves – by turning back the pages of time?
Shoot the Moon
Fred Shahadi
7/16/2017, Science Fiction
“You know the story. It starts here in the shadow of a book depository and ends in a police parking garage. A small man kills a great man who is in turn killed by a patriot. Except that never happened. Would you like to know the real story? It has never been told and you won’t believe it. It started before the Russians landed on the Moon on 22 November, 1963. Yes, that is correct. Pay close attention. Forget what you know. This is my only chance to get this out before we change it, hopefully for the last time this time.”
So begins the journey of one hapless Apollo Astronaut leading us on the ultimate time-bending trip through the sixties racing to right history before it’s too late. Shoot the Moon creates an world where JFK never died, NASA lost the Space Race, and Lee Harvey Oswald becomes an international hero. Or is that all wrong? And can it be figured out before it’s too late?
Tethered (Intertwined Series, Book 2)
Jenn Marie
7/16/2017, Young Adult, Romance/Fantasy
Elizabeth and Adam survived the century old curse that nearly claimed the lives of their counterparts, Josephine and Braden, but at what cost?
As the veil between timelines continues to diminish, they yet again find themselves in a race against time to cheat death in the past in order to salvage their futures. But with the curse given form, everything is changing, leaving them vulnerable to new threats. No longer are the dangers of their former lifetime contained to the Jefferson Plantation—a land fraught with peril and where horror reigns every summer between July 20 and August 13.
Until now …
Having changed the past, history has rewritten itself, extending the last day of the haunting to August 31—their new expiration date. Without the aid of visions, though, Elizabeth and Adam must find a new way to uncover their past, leaving Adam to scour the plantation for clues, while Elizabeth learns how to access Josephine’s subconscious.
Meanwhile, the Callahans—a vengeful family intent on keeping Elizabeth and Adam apart—will stop at nothing to preserve their bloodline and keep the curse from destroying their family. Will their ruthless antics prove tragic once more?
Now more than ever, their love will be tested as Elizabeth and Adam contend with the forces of the curse and fight to save their counterparts in 1905. Will they overcome the odds stacked against them? Or will the curse claim them for good?
Warning: Occasional coarse language. Intended for Mature Young Adult audience.
Behold the Elephantmen
Lafayette Williams
7/17/2017, Science Fiction
I’ve learned a number of important things while time-traveling:
1. Sanity expires in twenty years.
2. In fifty years, the world will struggle through what will be the third happening of civil war.
3. In one-hundred years, the world’s landscape will be Racially Identified Regions, the Assembly, Leif Malefic, genocide, and up.
4. Noc Mecov is likely happening in your now.
5. You never quite get used to tomorrows without yesterdays.
6. As much as you think you can help back then, you can’t. So don’t. But that’s easier said than done.
7. I wish I didn’t know what you’re about to find out.
While you’re digesting that, I’m nearer the edge of time trying to stop the genocide that’s happening there.
Transcendence
John McWilliams
7/17/2017, Science Fiction
Drs. Katherine Carrols and Tyler Cipriani, while conducting a time-messaging experiment at the South Pole, receive a message from 256 years in the future. The message urgently requests that they travel back in time thirty-two years to secretly launch a deep space probe aboard a US space shuttle.
The space probe, if successful, would travel 4.3 light years, over a period of two and a half centuries, to deliver technology crucial to saving the lives of millions of people on Earth’s first colonized exoplanet.
But can they trust the person who sent the message? Can they trust that the probe they’ve been asked to build isn’t actually some kind of weapon?
Even if they attempt the mission, it won’t be easy. Not only must they find a way to travel through time, build a spaceship in secret, and launch it, they must do it while eluding the Russians, the Chinese, and FBI Special Agents Lauren Madison and Ellis Cole, all of whom are eager to capture the scientists and secure the time-messaging technology for their own interests.
It’s a race against time—and through it—to save, or doom, millions of people they’ll never meet.
An Alien, A Time Machine and a Hero (An Alien and a Time Machine, Book 2)
Joey Rogers
7/17/2017, Science Fiction
Five years have passed since Skylar Holden saved the world. He’s no longer a loser, and his life is now on track. His job is going well. He’s respected. He makes plenty of money. He even has a girlfriend. He has everything he ever wished for. Unfortunately, he’s learning what it’s like to live a normal life and deal with the daily grind. He misses the excitement and challenge his previous life provided, but now he’s too afraid to risk anything in fear of losing what he’s achieved.
Alfred, the extraterrestrial who helped Skylar save the world, just got fired from his job as The Intergalactic Corp’s observer on Earth. He’s been banished to live among the humans for the next two millennia without interfering in their development. This is a light sentence for an alien, but there’s a problem. An asteroid is on a collision course for Earth, and it’s large enough to wipe out all of humanity—along with Alfred.
The asteroid will not reach Earth for ten years, but Alfred’s going to have to find a way to save Earth if he wants to survive himself, and he’s completely cut off from The Corp and their resources. He’s got a plan, but he’s going to need some help along with access to some of the advanced technology he’s stashed on Earth—in Skylar’s stomach.
Atlic (Timewaves, Book 2)
Sophie Davis
7/17/2017, Young Adult, Dystopian Science Fiction
How long does it take for ‘astounding’ to become ‘normal’?
Three weeks after returning from her last mission, Stassi 2446-89 is finally ready to move on from the events in Paris, with one exception: the hitchhiker, Charles DuPree. Now living on Branson Isle and training to become the Atlic Syndicate’s newest Runner, Charles must adjust to life five hundred years in the future before he can travel the timewaves into the past. But when it’s time for a training run in 2465 Manhattan, a ghost from her past makes Stassi question everything.
Lucky 13
Sandy Paterson
7/17/2017, Middle Grade, Fantasy
When eleven-year-old Jane Palmer moves to Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod for the summer, she and her siblings are looking forward to reading books, going to the arcade, and walking to the beach from the family summer home. Before long, Jane’s nine cousins and their families unexpectedly arrive to stay for the summer.
While playing Super Secret Spy Club, the thirteen kids discover that their grandparents are planning to sell the family Heights House because it is too expensive to keep it up. Heartbroken, the cousins set out to save the home that has been in their family for generations.
Glimpsing ghostly visitors and reliving faded memories, the thirteen cousins hear tell of a long-lost Palmer family treasure, but it is up to all of them to find it before the Heights House is sold for good.
The Shining Man (Doctor Who Series)
Cavan Scott
7/18/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Fantasy
“Being scared is the least of your worries.”
The Shining Men are everywhere. You spot them out of the corner of your eye. Abnormally tall, with long lank hair, blank faces and blazing eyes. If they catch you, they’ll drag you away to who knows where. No one is safe. They’re on every street corner. Waiting. Watching. Shining bright.
Of course it’s a hoax. It has to be, right? It started as a joke, a prank for Halloween. Then it went viral. Idiots dressing up as monsters. Giving folk a scare. Silly masks and fright wigs. No one gets hurt. Because bogeymen aren’t real.
Until people start going missing and lights burn in the darkness. Burning like eyes.
But help is on its way, in the form of a strange man called the Doctor and his friend, Bill. The Doctor will keep us safe. The Doctor will stop the monsters. Unless the monsters stop the Doctor first…
An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as played by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie.
The Last Magician
Lisa Maxwell
7/18/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.
In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives.
Esta is a talented thief, and she’s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.
But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
Time Loop
Pam Uphoff
7/20/2017, Science Fiction
Dr. Augustus Sturm was one of only twelve survivors of The War. A dozen scientists, buried in a deep bunker in the Antarctic icecap, frantically trying to perfect a time machine, so they could go back in time to their recent history, to change the disastrous course that led to the death of their civilization. To the death of the human race.
They failed.
Oh, the time machine worked.
But changing history has turned out to be more complicated than they’d realized.
Haven’t got it right, yet.
Finders Weepers, Losers Keepers
Mike Mitchell
7/20/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Have you ever had the brief fear of being left alone in the middle of nowhere? This young couple never did, until it happened to them. Discovering they are in two separate universes that intersect at a lonely gas station in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming is nearly impossible to comprehend. A bad cop, who thinks they are time traveling and is willing to do just about anything to force them to tell him how they do it, complicates their already impossible goal to get back together.
Although this couple is supported by a few well-meaning people, one person comes out of nowhere, just like their dual reality split, to try to reunify them. His tool? A powerful fifth fundamental force, beyond the irreducible energies of gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak atomic interactions.
The Rise of Fire (The Shattered Time Series, Book 2)
Beth Hammond
7/20/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
An instant connection
A common goal
A mystery that binds
Frankie is on the verge of understanding her connection with Ashra. But when Taren walks into her life new problems arise. Her head and her heart battle for control. When a dangerous encounter pits Frankie against a sinister man asking for “the book”, Taren shows up in time to help her make an escape to a secluded shack. It is there some questions are answered. But more rise up in their place. – “The questions swarming in her mind were too many. The words she had to ask them, too few.”
Ashra makes her way across the desert toward Fugashi but the Krad are in pursuit. The trip poses challenges apart from Perditus hot on their trail. Death, powerful discoveries, and a growing affection between Ashra and Bazine unfold in this second installment of the Shattered Time series.
Discover how two young women and one ancient book shatter time
Heart of Atlantis
Danielle James, P. Mattern
7/23/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
A broken engagement…
A honeymoon cruise she took alone…
A catastrophe she could never have imagined…
And a love that would defy all space and time…
Casey promised herself she would never settle and that is why she broke off her engagement and took her honeymoon cruise alone. A freak storm on the Atlantic had her swimming for her life and Casey thought all was lost.
She woke up on a beach in a strange place where people from all walks of life and time lived, reality was stranger than fiction, and a man that is too good to be true had taken interest in her. Could she really have survived the wormhole into the mythical Atlantis?
Jack had been on Atlantis for more years than he cared to count and had all but given up on finding someone to share his long life with. Until the day Casey washed up on shore. She was everything he never knew he wanted and everything he knew he needed.
Could he convince Casey that she could be happy in Atlantis? Or would she discover the way home without him?
City of Phase (The Maze, Book 1)
George Wilson
7/23/2017, Science Fiction
Blake, Perry, and Michelle were picked up by a machine called The Maze to travel through time and space…
…in an elevator.
Michelle finds her life to be in ruins, but when she decides to jump to her death, she finds herself having been picked up by a machine called The Maze and in the company of Blake and Perry, both of whom claim to have also been picked up in the same manner as her months before she arrived.
With Perry, she follows Blake into an elevator that opens into a deserted city on a planet far from Earth thousands of years in the future. Blake, who leads the trio with a consciousness known as The Guide, discovers this town’s inhabitants can only be seen when they hold completely still, and they all send a unified message: Get out!
Captured on the edge of town by the local military led by General Halloway, they discover the town is quarantined due to an accident with a new technology that was supposed to take the town out of phase to protect it. Now, everyone in the town is trapped, and no one can reach the phase generator to shut it down without phasing out and getting trapped as well. Furthermore, Halloway is not only uninterested in freeing the town, he shows them its usefulness to him and its danger by forcing people within its boundaries to get them out of his way.
With the assistance from a local movement dedicated to saving the city and a reluctant scientist who helped build the machine, the traveling trio must find a way to circumvent the general’s defenses, shut down the shield, and free the families of those he is helping. Failure will not only result in a continued purgatory for those trapped, but Blake, Perry, Michelle, and those that helped them could be sacrificed to this living death as well.
Turanga
Dai Qing
7/23/2017, Science Fiction
The year: 2058. The substance: Turanga, a peculiar pill that gives people the power to read minds. One lone scientist working to unlock the drug’s secrets becomes involved in a fight to save the human race from aliens and their collaborators on Earth.
His search for the drug’s origin and purpose takes him from the hills of western Africa to the plains of Arizona, and as he gradually becomes conscious of a conspiracy to prepare the world for alien colonization, he must grapple with the far-reaching implications of mind-reading.
A Night in Nottingham (Museum Adventures, Book 2)
Mikey Brooks
7/23/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
The exciting sequel to Museum Adventures: The Maya Mystery.
Nick and Katie found a time machine in the basement of their grandfather’s museum. Before they even know where they’ve traveled, Nick and Katie are chased through a castle, arrested for stealing, and thrown in a dungeon. Surrounded by darkness and filthy peasants, they hear talk of a name they thought was only found in storybooks…Robin Hood.
Will Nick and Katie find a way back home, or will they remain prisoners to the infamous Sheriff of Nottingham?
In 27 Days
Alison Gervais
7/25/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Hadley Jamison is shocked when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, has committed suicide. She didn’t know the quiet, reserved guy very well, but that doesn’t stop her from feeling there was something she could have done to help him. Hoping to find some sense of closure, Hadley attends Archer’s funeral.
There, Hadley is approached by a man who calls himself Death and offers her a deal. If Hadley accepts, she will be sent back 27 days in time to prevent Archer from killing himself. But when Hadley agrees to Death’s terms and goes back to right the past, she quickly learns her mission is harder than she ever could have known.
Hadley soon discovers Archer’s reasons for being alone, and Archer realizes that having someone to confide in isn’t as bad as he’d always thought. But when a series of dangerous accidents starts pushing them apart, Hadley must decide whether she is ready to risk everything—including her life—to keep Archer safe.
Valentines Day (Time Patrol, Book 8)
Bob Mayer
7/25/2017, Science Fiction
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity—or it will move apart.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Six Time Patrol Agents are sent to the same day, 14 February, in six different years to keep our history, and our timeline, from being destroyed.
1929. Gunmen massacre seven people in the infamous St. Valentines Day Massacre. Al Capone is consolidating his grip on the Outfit in Chicago.
1945. President Roosevelt, heading home from the Yalta Conference, stops on the Great Bitter Lake to meet King Idn Saud of Saudi Arabia to discuss a relatively new topic: Arab oil. And a Jewish homeland.
1779. Captain Cook, famed explorer of the Pacific, meets his fate in Hawaii.
278. Saint Valentine is beheaded near the Milvian Bridge.
1945. The Dresden Firebombing. Kurt Vonnegut is in a slaughterhouse as the first bombers appear overheard.
1946. The ENIAC computer, programmed by six women, is unveiled to the public. The press thinks the women are simply models.
The mission, as always for the Time Patrol, seems straight-forward: keep history intact. No matter the cost.
But this time, things go very differently than in previous missions and one of the team members must make the ultimate sacrifice.
Legends Untold (Timewaves, Book 3)
Sophie Davis
7/25/2017, Young Adult, Dystopian Science Fiction
For Stassi and her teammates, only one thing is certain: Heads. Will. Roll.
With rebellions rising and the Inquisition marching towards England, the stakes are higher than ever for the Atlic Syndicate’s runners. Their target is sixteen-year old Lady Jane Grey, one of history’s most tragic figures. When Stassi and the gang arrive, Jane has just begun her ill-fated reign as Queen of England.
The runners thought that penetrating the Tower of London would be their biggest challenge. They were very wrong.
The New World (Timebomb Trilogy, Book 3)
Scott K. Andrews
7/27/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Kaz, Dora and Jana – three people from three different time periods, brought together by forces they don’t understand, given powers they can barely comprehend.Their powers have brought them together. And nothing – not war, not betrayal, and not even death – has been able to tear them apart. And now, after everything they’ve been through, they’re about to find the bonds of their friendship tested in ways they could never have imagined.
This is the stunning, epic conclusion to the incredible story begun in TimeBomb and continued in Second Lives: a story of friendship, of love, and of learning what it means to be extraordinary.
Heroes and Martyrs (StarPassage, Book 2)
Clark Rich Burbage
7/27/2017, Young Adult, Historical Fantasy/Religious
The award-winning StarPassage saga continues with the relic guiding the Carsons to a new and desperate family. Two brothers, Bobby and Mike, are struggling after a tragic accident turns their world upside down.
Join our heroes on a series of dangerous adventures to solve the relic’s riddles, save lives, escape the ever-increasing Tracker threat, and experience some of the most dreadful and exciting moments in history.
Will they learn from the past–should they change it if they can? Is there any hope for survival?
Dispersion (Recursion Event Saga, Book 2)
Brian J. Walton
7/27/2017, Science Fiction/Technothriller
Time travelers are among us…
And their choices draw the fates of many into their world.
Ellis Claymore, on a drunken night in Venice Beach, relates a story to his friends. A story he’s never told. A story which opens up strange new worlds that he never knew existed. An underground campus parapsychology lab, men in dark suits that stalk his every move, and a mysterious girl who has led multiple lives all converge in the seedy underbelly of 1970’s Hollywood, and beyond.
Dispersion is Book Two of the Recursion Event Saga following the ongoing saga of ISD agent Molly Gardner’s journey to take control of her fate, a journey that will change the past, present, and future for all of humanity.
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