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Oddly enough, I’ve been meaning to put this up for over a week. Originally, I was going to wait until I had the book ready for sale, but you know, reality has it’s own agenda. All of a sudden, a bunch of things suddenly erupted onto my schedule like post-rain mushrooms. Smashwords takes a bit of time to publish things, so I thought I’d put the teaser up now.
It’s my second book, and this one is in the spirit of Poul Anderson’s Time Patrol. The title is The Ghosts of Deep Time, and the book contains a novel and a short story.
From the back cover:
“A consultant finds a fossilized pack in the desert, then finds himself back in the Miocene with a criminal gang.
A game warden busts a group of trespassing druids in a wildlife sanctuary. They vanish in a green flash and he loses his job, only to be recruited for something much bigger.
This is the big secret: time travel is easy. There are over four billion years in Earth’s past. The deeper one goes in time, the more alien the Earth is. Still, people have settled most of Earth’s history. Of course they live without a trace, for that is the law of deep time. To do otherwise could create paradoxes, bifurcating histories, even time wars and mass extinctions.
Where there is law, there is also crime. When crimes span millions of years, law enforcement takes a special kind of officer. An ex-game warden can be the perfect recruit. At the right time.”
Here’s a sample. Enjoy! The Smashwords version will be available in a couple of weeks, and a paper version will be available through Lulu late next week. I’ll add links as things progress.
Update: It’s now available as an trade paperback from Lulu in electronic formats (Kindle, Nook) from Smashwords. Amazon is coming in a bit. In the meantime, you can purchase it from either of these two fine companies.
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Putting the life back in science fiction 
Sounds interesting. I wonder how they settled all the history–especially the energy wars.
If you’re interested in following up the solar/earth question from Charlie’s blog, why not recruit some experts and do a post on it.
Comment by Joan Slonczewski October 7, 2011 @ 12:01 amThanks Joan, As for the solar/earth question it’s a tempting thought. I know enough about the equations to know that it’s a lot of math, so I’m going to put it off until I get the book out.
Comment by heteromeles October 7, 2011 @ 3:44 amIn case you’re interested, my new blog is here:
Comment by Joan S. October 17, 2011 @ 9:45 pmhttp://ultraphyte.com/
A good place to argue space-plant biology!
Thanks Joan, I’ll be checking it out soon.
Comment by Heteromeles October 18, 2011 @ 1:33 amIt has the potential of becoming a classic.
Comment by F. October 12, 2011 @ 4:51 pmI for one can’t wait to buy the ebook. Cheers
Thanks. Hope you enjoy it!
Comment by Heteromeles October 12, 2011 @ 9:09 pm