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Time travel, though it borders on cliché, remains a common storyline. Yet from H.G. Wells to "Outlander," no one has ever traveled like this.
TimeLiners is not your father's science fiction. In lieu of the usual time travel clichés, debut author Emily Blaisdell asks what would happen if some "Timemaster," an Elon Musk-ish Bad Boy genius, turned time travel into tourism. So it's 2027. Your Time Jockeys liner is boarding. Where in the recent past are you headed? To a legendary concert? To kill Hitler (get in line.) To watch that first kiss with...
Running with this premise, Blaisdell spins a sardonic spoof of modern travel and technology. Movies on Meh-flix. Shopping on Stuffipile.com. Social media on Spewbox and Blather. And for three amazing years, a worldwide fleet of TimeLiners provides the ultimate escape from our own wacked out times. Until "small dlsruptions" begin to wreak havoc.
But mostly it was miracle and wonder, with little bags of pretzels for snacks...
-- "The best -- and wittiest -- novel ever written about time travel." -- USA Yesterday
-- "Although I've been dead since 1946, I bloody well loved TimeLiners. Brilliant!" -- H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine
-- "TimeLiners sweeps you into a past both appealing and appalling. When you return to our own wackdoodle era, you'll close the novel thinking, 'If only... " -- New York Timers Book Review
-- "Ms. Blaisdell and her readers should know that in all my life I never mooned anybody. Well, maybe that one time." -- Steve Jobs
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