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Time and Time Again
528 pages
A desperate, fast-paced race against time to rewrite the twentieth century and stop a global catastrophe before it begins.
What it feels like
This propulsive historical adventure plunges the reader into a tense, dread-soaked atmosphere where the weight of the entire twentieth century hangs in the balance. Driven by a profound sense of isolation and the ticking clock of impending global catastrophe, the narrative moves at a breakneck pace. The prose is action-oriented and urgent, perfectly matching the desperate, high-stakes mission at the core of the experience. It feels like a desperate race against destiny, exploring the heavy burden of foresight and the terrifying fragility of history, where a single action might change everything. It will thoroughly delight readers who crave fast-paced science fiction thrillers that blend rich historical textures with massive, world-altering stakes and a deeply lonely, determined protagonist.
- Mood
- tense
- lonely
- dread-soaked
- high-stakes
- Tone
- urgent
- serious
- adventurous
- desperate
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- the weight of history · profound isolation · the butterfly effect · preventing catastrophe
- The writing
- Action-oriented and urgent, driving the narrative forward with a focus on historical atmosphere and ticking-clock momentum.
- The arc
- Begins in profound, time-displaced isolation and accelerates into a desperate, high-stakes mission to alter the course of human history.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave fast-paced, high-stakes historical thrillers where time travel is used to confront massive global catastrophes.
Content notes
- war
- mass casualties
- isolation
About the book
Summary: It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it? (Cover)
Description from Open Library.
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