A Matter of Time
- ISBN-10
- 172019548X
- ISBN-13
- 9781720195481
- Series
- A Matter of Time
- Pages
- 534
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-14
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Steven Craig
Description
Once a world-renowned Quantum Physicist, Nathan Hawke finds himself exiled in disgrace from the scientific community and higher academia. Relegated to teaching a high school physics class by day and binge watching '80s t.v shows with his cat at night, Nathan is approached by a mysterious donor offering to fund all research into his unique time travel theory involving the appearances of ghosts. Suspicious of their motives, he accepts their offer as it may be his last and only chance to prove his theory true. Upon success, Nathan finds himself trapped on a small, Georgia farm in the year 1862. The Civil War is raging around him and he must wait 3 years for the time splice to reopen. But in those three years he finds something he never expected. Love. Life. A family.Only, he soon discovers that staying out of history's way is harder than he imagined, and after inadvertently altering the timeline, his new life is left in shambles. Leaving him to choose between saving it or saving history. As things continue to go horribly wrong, Nathan barely escapes the 1800s. But with no way to control when or where each new splice takes him, he is left bouncing through time from one era to another, one adventure to another, and one dilemma to another. All in a desperate hope of getting back to the splice that first took him to 1862, reset the timeline, fix his mistakes, and save the woman he loves.Visited along the way by a strange doppelganger of himself that only he can see or hear, Nathan is left wondering who or what he really is. Transmissions from a future self? Insanity caused by a side effect of time travel? Or something else entirely? Meanwhile, in the future, once trusted colleagues seek to steal his work for their own purposes, and the FBI is pursuing him for crimes he is accused of committing in the distant past. It is during his epic journey across the temporal plains that Nathan will discover that there is far more to the existence of time than he ever imagined.
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- 2022-03-10
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- Hodder & Stoughton