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Time Trap
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ISBN:
0-7414-2066-X
©2004
Price:
$13.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 157 pages
Category/Subject:
FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure
A fast moving adventure that carries the reader’s mind to far away places and times. It’s an imaginative mixture of Drama, romance and humor amid political and military power struggles.
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Abstract:
A time traveling machine of the future is accidentally disabled today. Dr. Madge Hall (NSA scientist) and Major Drake Barber (Air Force scientist) learn to operate it. From an 1880 train ride to the jungles of Brazil. With several plot twists, they go from America to futuristic worlds.
Madge takes a trip to 1901 England where she is trapped in time and jailed for killing a villain. With some clever thinking in and outside of the courtroom, Drake gets Madge out of trouble only to find they are both trapped. The Timeport has been stolen.
With stroke of luck, they recover the Timeport. Risking an uncertain return, they find themselves in strange surroundings. Although innocent, Genworld Police discover them standing over a dead alien with a weapon in Drake’s hand. Fleeing, they return to their sanctuary for a warm ending.
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Customer Reviews
 
Time Trap
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08/22/2004
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Reviewer:
Detra Fitch
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3 STARS!
A time travel machine is accidentally disabled in the present. Dr. Madge Hall (NSA scientist) and Major Drake Barber (Air Force scientist) has the machine relocated for further study. They soon become considered the experts on the device. Political and military branches are in a power struggle for possession it, but they all agree that Madge and Drake should work together and unravel its mysteries. Madge and Drake realize that should the device fall into the wrong hands anything could happen. Therefore, not trusting their own superiors they report only enough to keep the bosses happy while they study the machine. The machine can not only go forward and backward in our time, but it can also do so on any planet in any solar system and galaxy!
When delay is no longer an option, everyone is present for the first real test. Drake is chosen to travel back in time to the year 1880, America. The trip is only a few hours for Drake. But over a year has passed when he returns. Nothing he did changed the present, however, Drake returns to find himself in Brazil instead of the lab. Madge, fearing the superiors, had slightly altered the return plans so the higher-ups would believe the time device, and Drake, were lost forever. Now Madge and Drake will take full responsibility for keeping the time travel machine safe from the world, which is not ready for it. Yet, Madge must make one trip back in time to 1901, England. Otherwise, she may never exist! To make matters worse, the people from the future know that the machine failed to return (of course) and aliens are looking for the time travel machine. And they are not exactly human!
*** This novel seems to target adult sci-fi fans; however, teens and young adults would enjoy it much more. It is not a long book, about 157 pages. There are no chapter numbers. Instead, each new section has a brief title, such as "Genworld" and "The Trial". It is a stand alone story, but has the potential of becoming a small series if the author so chooses. One word of advice to readers: Do not read the back of the book. It tells too much of the story and could spoil it for you. Simply open the book and begin reading.
All-in-all, this is a very good book to curl up with in front of an open fire on a cold, rainy afternoon. There are no sub-plots to detract from the tale, just fun possibilities. This is author D.E. Gronquist's debut novel and it clearly shows that he has great potential in the sci-fi genre.
*** HUNTRESS REVIEWS
(Reviewed by Detra Fitch) 8/16/2004
Posted: http://www.huntressreviews.com/scifi.htm
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