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Time Loves a Hero
by Allen SteeleEarth's past and future are unintentionally and dangerously altered by time travelers from the twenty-fourth century in this masterful science fiction thriller from one of the genre's best Chrononaut Franc Lu has come a long, long way--from the twenty-fourth century, in fact--to be in New Jersey on the evening of May 6, 1937. Traveling four hundred years into the past, he and his partner have been sent by the Chronospace Research Centre to observe the infamous explosion of the zeppelin Hindenburg. But when the German airship touches down safely on the airfield in Lakehurst, Lu realizes that something has gone terribly wrong--or rather, horribly right. His presence at the landing has set in motion an alternate historical timeline, and now everything will be different, though not necessarily in a good way. The consequences of Lu's mistake could prove catastrophic for every living soul on Earth, now and forever, unless the past and the future are somehow repaired--and that is a burden destined to fall on the shoulders of visionary NASA scientist and wannabe science fiction author Dr. David Zachary Murphy. An expansion of his Hugo Award-winning novella " '. . . Where Angels Fear to Tread,' " Allen Steele's Time Loves a Hero is at once thrilling, surprising, startling, and thoughtful--a mind-blowing masterwork of speculative fiction that radically reimagines time travel, alien contact, alternate history, and a host of other well-worn science fiction tropes.
Time Machine, The / Invisible Man, The
by Wells H. G.The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi. The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility—a secret that drives him mad. Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wells’s best-loved and most critically acclaimed “scientific romances. ” In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a “ripping yarn,” but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. “The strength of Mr. Wells,” wrote Arnold Bennett, “lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist’s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects. ” Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.
Time Maverick (Yr 3 - The Nightshade Guild: Broken Time #9)
by Gracen MillerNew Orleans 2034... A post-apocalyptic hellhole where anarchy rules the streets. Thrown forward in time, Nicoletta, Stetson, and Marik discover a bleak world with no opportunities. Paranormals control the narrative, enslaving and governing the humans for their sick pleasures. Nic loathes the self-proclaimed King ruling her city. Buildings are decimated and humans are fighting to the death in horrific gladiator style confrontations. The new normal must go. Their best hope at overhauling their dismal future lies in finding a way back to their timeline. But can they catch a break to turn that theory into reality?
Time Out Of Joint (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Philip K. DickRagle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day - and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life - indeed his whole world - is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?'
Time Out Of Mind
by Richard CowperAs a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a ghostly man who urgently mouthed a message: KILL MAGOBION! Years later, as a member of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special duty: investigation of a mysterious drug which endowed its addicts with superhuman powers. Now, that investigation leads Linton and Carol into a bewildering maze where past and future slide by each other at terrifying speed...where international peace teeters in the balance...and where all blues point to the top-secret Ministry of Internal Security and its prestigious, powerful leader - COLONEL PIERS MAGOBION.
Time Out of Joint (S. F. Masterworks Ser.)
by Philip K. Dick"Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."--Rolling Stone Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.
Time Out of Mind
by Richard CowperAs a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a ghostly man who urgently mouthed a message:KILL MAGOBION!Years later, as a member of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special duty: investigation of a mysterious drug which endowed its addicts with superhuman powers.Now, that investigation leads Linton and Carol into a bewildering maze where past and future slide by each other at terrifying speed...where international peace teeters in the balance...and where all blues point to the top-secret Ministry of Internal Security and its prestigious, powerful leader - COLONEL PIERS MAGOBION.
Time Past
by Maxine McarthurScience fiction novel. Sequel to 'Time Future', winner of the 1999 George Turner Prize. The deep space station Jocasta is awaiting a vote to free it from the Confederacy. However its commander, Halley, vanishes when an experiment with a jump drive leaves her captured in the earth's past. Powerful forces conspire against Halley ever returning alive. Author works at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Time Patrol: A Time Patrol Book (TIME PATROL)
by Poul AndersonForget minor hazards such as the H-Bomb. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes.Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering - or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists - erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.
Time Pressure (Lifehouse Triology #2)
by Spider RobinsonA strange blue light has brought a visitor from the future to an American commune in Nova Scotia. The visitor's name is Rachel, a beautiful woman from another civilization... and another time. Her one-way mission is simple: collect data on the past of the human race.<P> But why does she risk immortality for this mission? Why are her methods so seductive, so devastating? And will this emissary from the future destroy Earth's past?<P> Only time will tell.
Time Raiders
by Cindy DeesBecause of her uncanny ability to find lost objects, Tessa Marconi has been given the dangerous task of time-jumping back to the Persian Empire and ancient Greece to locate a precious medallion fragment. Trouble finds her in Xerxes' court--and so does the most beautiful man she's ever seen, Rustam of Halicarnassus. There's only one problem: he's a Centauri spy whose sworn duty it is to stop her. Tessa has never felt such magical strength--or sexual prowess--as she feels in Rustam's presence. And as the conflict that grips Persia and Greece explodes, it becomes clear that their auras are strangely intertwined. Separately, they are powerless. But together, they just might save the world. . . and themselves.
Time Raiders: The Avenger
by P. C. CastJoinNew York Timesbestselling author P. C. Cast as the Time Raiders continue their desperate quest for the key to peace. . . by casting one more of their own into the dangerous unknown. . . with passionate results!For Alexandra Patton, the Time Raiders project sends the reluctant psychic back to 60 AD Briton--a world where she can barely understand the accents, let alone its culture of brutality and superstition. Armed only with her "freakish" ability to talk to the dead, Alex must use all her gifts to entice Caradoc, a savagely sexy Druid warrior, into helping her succeed in her mission. What they discover along the way is pure passion. Now, torn between duty and the man of her dreams, should Alex return home if given the chance? Or dare she risk everything to begin anew in this strange and mystical land?
Time Raiders: The Greek Lover
by Jocelyn KelleyThe first thing Zoe Rousakis sees after traveling through time to ancient Greece is a naked man. Drakon, a servant of Poseidon, has a body to rival the gods and a kiss that commands her to surrender every part of herself to him. When shes with him, Zoes psychic powers fill her mind with enticingly erotic images. But her abilities have already cost her one mission, and she cant risk being distracted by a man this time. Yet how can she keep Drakon at bay when his own dark visions show him that Zoe is in danger and that is his destiny to save her?
Time Raiders: The Healer's Passion
by Parker Blue"You want me to go back in time with who?"Captain Téa Callas, M.D., agreed to a risky time travel mission to get away from Special Forces Commander Rick Walters, not spend more time in close proximity to the irresistibly masculine soldier. They had shared a brief but passionate fling months ago...until Téa put an end to their affair. In medieval Italy, Téa's traitorous body still remembers-and craves-his touch. His strong sense of honor entices her ever more, though he is haunted by nightmares of war. Can Téa heal his inner wounds with her paranormal gifts...and find her way back into his arms?
Time Raiders: The Seduction
by Cindy DeesDr. Athena Carswell is on the brink of making time travel possible--until the Department of Defense sends Colonel Peter Grafton to oversee her work. The hot young officer is a serious distraction, especially when his psychic abilities reveal their mutual attraction!However, there are others interested in Athena's work, too--people who will use any force necessary to get their hands on her research. But when it comes to protecting Athena, nothing will stand in Peter's way. . . not even time itself. An eBook-exclusive prequel to the TIME RAIDERS series from Silhouette Nocturne!
Time Raiders: The Seeker
by Lindsay MckennaDelia Sebastian is a trained historian and psychic. Former army captain Jake Tyler is her swaggering ex-lover, who can read her most intimate thoughts--and desires. Together they will make the risky leap back to 44 BC to infiltrate the court of Julius Caesar by posing as Grecian mercenaries. But with assassins everywhere, will old passions reignite to undermine their cover. . . leaving them trapped in history forever?
Time Raiders: The Warrior's Touch
by Delilah DevlinLieutenant Farideh Kalani expected her time-traveling assignment in ancient Scythia to be difficult, but fitting in with Amazon warriors is easy compared to being partnered with Sergeant First Class Caleb MacAvoy. The Texan soldier is infuriatingly smug and undeniably sexy. Then with one kiss, he awakens all Farideh's desires. Now she'll have to keep an eye on her mission and try to resist her attraction to Caleb. Because he's the one man who might be able to breach the walls she's built around her heart. . . .
Time Raiders: The Whisper
by Elle JamesAir Force officer Marisol Vasquez was chosen for a dangerous time-travel mission for her ability to see through the eyes of animals. Sent back nearly six hundred years to the Incan empire, she's committed to finding the precious alien artifact she's been assigned to recover. But Marisol's mission hits a snag when she's given as a gift to the emperor's shaman, a mysteriously sexy man who is determined to seduce her. Suddenly Marisol's devotion to her task faces an entirely unexpected threat: the hazard of fierce, all-consuming lust. . . .
Time Rambler
by Kim HansenA cowboy trapped in time... Travis McCord thought he'd lost his life in a shoot-out, defending his best friend's wife in 1883. But somehow he'd never. been put to rest. He heard voices and saw people around him, but why couldn't they see him? A woman trapped by time... Katie Shannon didn't believe in time warps or time travelers; she was too busy struggling to save her ranch. Then she walked into the dusty saloon in the Eagle River ghost town and met the new sheriff. Even in the shade of a broad-brimmed Stetson, Travis McCord had the bluest eyes she'd ever seen. But how could she risk her life--and her ranch--on a man who'd been dead one hundred years?
Time Remembered
by Elizabeth CraneA voodoo doll and an ancient spell whisk thoroughly modern Jody Farnell from a decaying antebellum mansion to the Old South and a true Southern gentleman who shows her the magic of love.
Time Rep (Time Rep Ser. #1)
by Peter WardThe world’s most insignificant person is the perfect fit for a very odd job . . . that just might require him to save time and space as we know it. Geoffrey Stamp has always had a bit of a self-esteem problem. But it doesn’t help to be told that he’s in fact the most inconsequential human being who’s ever lived. Or that even certain types of mushrooms have more significance in the order of things. Or that Geoffrey is the perfect definition of a nobody. And all this from a complete stranger no less. A stranger who claims to have dropped in from the year 3050 to offer Geoffrey, precisely because of his outsized irrelevance, a job too good to be true. As a Time Rep, Geoffrey will be a vacation tour guide to the twenty-first century, showing wide-eyed tourists from the future all the sights and sounds of our quaint, archaic millennium. But when Geoffrey uncovers a conspiracy to change the course of history, he is sent on a mind-bending adventure through time and space involving an imaginary lake, a talking seagull, dinosaurs, aliens, the Great Fire of London, and the discovery that he might not be as insignificant as people thought. “Peter Ward’s Time Rep is a quick, entertaining read and proves, once and for all, there just might be a reason to play video games for hours on end.” —SFFWORLD
Time Salvager (Time Salvager Ser. #1)
by Wesley ChuIn a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly controlled use of time travel holds the key to maintaining a fragile existence among the other planets and their moons. James Griffin-Mars is a chronman–a convicted criminal recruited for his unique psychological makeup to undertake the most dangerous job there is: missions into Earth’s past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. Most chronmen never reach old age, and James is reaching his breaking point. On his final mission, James meets scientist Elise Kim, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and common sense, James brings her back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, and discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity’s home world.
Time Shadows
by Deborah D. MooreA woman must fix what a sorceress has wrought. First stop: the Titanic. A mind-bending time-travel adventure from the author of The Journal series. Morgan, a powerful 800-year-old sorceress, wants to make amends for the bad things she’s done during her long life. She has perfected a spell that opens a gateway to the past; the only problem is that she can’t return to a time she’s already lived through. If she does, both her younger spirit and her current form would cease to exist. The only solution is to convince someone to travel back for her—someone that wouldn’t be missed if things went wrong.Sage Aster doesn’t really believe that Morgan can send her back to the past, so as payment for the kindness Morgan showed her when she was homeless and alone, Sage agrees to the time travel experiment. She is then stunned to find herself transported back to 1912 aboard the doomed Titanic.Again and again Sage is sent back to different timelines, never quite knowing what she is supposed to accomplish—or how to make things right.
Time Shards
by David Fitzgerald Dana FredstiIT’S CALLED “THE EVENT,” AN UNIMAGINABLE CATACLYSM THAT SHATTERS 600 MILLION YEARS OF THE EARTH’S TIMELINE. Our world is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of scattered remnants of the past, present, and future, dropped alongside one another in a patchwork of “shards”. Monsters from Jurassic prehistory, ancient armies, and high-tech robots all coexist in this deadly post-apocalyptic landscape. A desperate group of survivors sets out to locate the source of the disaster. They include 21st century Californian Amber Richardson, Cam, a young Celtic warrior from Roman Britannia, Alex Brice, a policewoman from 1985, and Blake, a British soldier from World War II. With other refugees from across time, they must learn the truth behind the Event, if they are to survive.
Time Shards - Shatter War (Time Shards)
by David Fitzgerald Dana FredstiTime shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodge threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late.WAR ACROSS THE TIMESCAPEEarth's past, present, and future have shattered in "the Event," yielding a terrifying new world of prehistoric monsters, lost cultures, strange technologies, and displaced armies. Coming from different points throughout history, a desperate band of survivors join "Merlin," a mysterious figure who may be their only hope to save the world--if he can be trusted. When their twenty-third-century ship the Vanuatu is sabotaged by an unknown enemy and thrown far off its course, the team must discover who is responsible, even as they are split apart and fight to survive in the war-torn Shard world...