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The LATTICE of TIME
Sequel to Cold Time
The LATTICE of TIME
Sequel to Cold Time
ISBN: 978-1500810726
Something has gone horribly wrong. An event has collapsed the CryoChronos power grid and nearly collapsed the Washington area grid. Additionally, two medical physicists have been found brutally executed and the top CryoChronos time research scientist has been found dead in his home.
Picking up where Cold Time left off, this is the story of the embattled Director of CryoChronos trying to balance the investigative pressure of federal and local authorities as he leads his own internal investigation into what happened on that historic day in 2079.
It's the story of an aging government agent risking all for a shot at youth and immortality, a dying woman willing to sacrifice her sanity for one last, intimate encounter with her long deceased lover, a young woman struggling to free her father from "cold time" incarceration, and a couple discovering the importance of family after more than a half century in cryopreservation.
Will the Director be able to confirm his company has finally succeeded in sending someone to the past? The answer lies in this, the dramatic conclusion to the chronicle of "the dawn of time travel."
Excerpts
“It may not kill you, Booker, but after you inject you may well wish it would. So my advice to you is, don’t do it.”
- John Jason, Jr. attempting to dissuade DHS Agent Brick Booker from using the recently developed immortality drug.
“I’m asking you to do this for me. Give me this chance to be with him one more time.”
- Angel Andersson, begging John Jason, Jr. to let her experience a memory of James Wayne Torvid, her lover killed in the time dome 31 years earlier.
“He was cryopreserved in November of that year and is currently housed in a cryocontainer in the North Washington Federal Cryoprison.”
- Hal, the CryoChronos quantum computer, responding to an inquiry from Janet Freund regarding the fate of her father.
“He was developing a hair-trigger temper, to the point I often hesitated to even approach him.”
- John Jason, Jr., describing Dr. Geoff Chezney's mental state to detective Ramsey.
“Yes, but there’s bad news as well, isn’t there? If he’s alive in 2016, that means he died in the time dome on the 25th of May, 2048—at the young age of 43.”
- Janet Freund, responding to the Director’s good news that her son, James Wayne, may still be alive.
Picking up where Cold Time left off, this is the story of the embattled Director of CryoChronos trying to balance the investigative pressure of federal and local authorities as he leads his own internal investigation into what happened on that historic day in 2079.
It's the story of an aging government agent risking all for a shot at youth and immortality, a dying woman willing to sacrifice her sanity for one last, intimate encounter with her long deceased lover, a young woman struggling to free her father from "cold time" incarceration, and a couple discovering the importance of family after more than a half century in cryopreservation.
Will the Director be able to confirm his company has finally succeeded in sending someone to the past? The answer lies in this, the dramatic conclusion to the chronicle of "the dawn of time travel."
Excerpts
“It may not kill you, Booker, but after you inject you may well wish it would. So my advice to you is, don’t do it.”
- John Jason, Jr. attempting to dissuade DHS Agent Brick Booker from using the recently developed immortality drug.
“I’m asking you to do this for me. Give me this chance to be with him one more time.”
- Angel Andersson, begging John Jason, Jr. to let her experience a memory of James Wayne Torvid, her lover killed in the time dome 31 years earlier.
“He was cryopreserved in November of that year and is currently housed in a cryocontainer in the North Washington Federal Cryoprison.”
- Hal, the CryoChronos quantum computer, responding to an inquiry from Janet Freund regarding the fate of her father.
“He was developing a hair-trigger temper, to the point I often hesitated to even approach him.”
- John Jason, Jr., describing Dr. Geoff Chezney's mental state to detective Ramsey.
“Yes, but there’s bad news as well, isn’t there? If he’s alive in 2016, that means he died in the time dome on the 25th of May, 2048—at the young age of 43.”
- Janet Freund, responding to the Director’s good news that her son, James Wayne, may still be alive.
About the Writing of The Lattice of Time
Niagra Falls
Not long after I published Cold Time, I realized there was more of that story that needed to be told. The readers needed to know what became of not only the characters, but the entire CryoChronos empire as well. Telling the rest of the story, I thought, would not be difficult due to my having placed several literary "hooks" in the Cold Time storyline. And that was indeed the case. Cold Time took me four years to write; The Lattice of Time much less.
The events in Cold Time were interwoven over four distinct time periods between 2016 and 2079. In contrast, I decided to present the events in The Lattice of Time in a much more chronological fashion. And because those events occur over a single month, the book is a much easier read.
The Lattice of Time is the story of the aftermath. With the inclusion of the events that occurred immediately following the last event of Cold Time, I'm satisfied the full story of the dawn of time travel has finally been told. I enjoyed writing the sequel and hope you enjoy reading it.
The events in Cold Time were interwoven over four distinct time periods between 2016 and 2079. In contrast, I decided to present the events in The Lattice of Time in a much more chronological fashion. And because those events occur over a single month, the book is a much easier read.
The Lattice of Time is the story of the aftermath. With the inclusion of the events that occurred immediately following the last event of Cold Time, I'm satisfied the full story of the dawn of time travel has finally been told. I enjoyed writing the sequel and hope you enjoy reading it.