Showing results for "time out!" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he's never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".

Paris, November 2048 – eine Entdeckung, die die Welt verändert. Das Raumschiff Carl-Weathers sendet die ersten Bilder von dem Schwarzen Loch, das sich im Zentrum der Milchstraße befindet. Vollkommen gebannt bestaunen die Menschen die Aufnahmen, aber einigen reicht dies nicht. Unter ihnen ist die krebskranke Milliardärin Ellen Duvall, die wissen will, was sich hinter dem astronomischen Phänomen befindet. Zu spät erkennt sie ihren Fehler – und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

It's a good thing that Time Agents are intensively trained. When Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe set up a time gate on the alien world of Hawaika for an exploration into its troubling past, they didn't anticipate that a storm would sweep them and their helper Karara Trehern and her two dolphins through it unprepared...and then collapse the gate. Trapped in a time of sword-and-spear technology, they rapidly discover that each of the world's cultures appear to be trying to wipe one another out.

After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.

It’s hard to be a drunken idiot when the world keeps burning down around you. Cairn, the charming-yet-utterly-irresponsible heir to the Uskarrion throne, is all too happy to toss the crown aside. But an invasion, conspiracy, and rise of a terrifying villain result in his untimely death. Then, Cairn reawakens. It's a decade earlier, and he's in his childhood body. But he remembers everything...there's much to accomplish. First, however, he'd really love to stop himself from dying.

The year is 1878. In the untamed heart of the wild west, Samantha Thorne and Warren Mathews emerge as an unlikely duo striving to survive. Not long ago, they basked in the familiarity of the twenty-first century, until a cosmic phenomenon unraveled the very fabric of their existence. Wandering through a desolate landscape, Sam’s hope dwindles. One night, fate intervenes through a chance run-in with a band of dubious cowboys, turning their lives once more on its head.

Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse for Dan very quickly. Before long, he finds himself incarcerated in a secure psychiatric unit, and his hopes of ever returning to the past looking bleak. Elsewhere, Josh has unlocked the secrets of the time bubbles and can now freely travel in time. He returns to the scene of past encounters, as well as travelling to the future to join Peter on his adventures through time.

1191: Giles de Soutenay has never liked or trusted John, Count of Mortain, but when John is taken seriously ill, it falls to Giles to ensure his survival. 2006: Marion Hart, visiting the ruined Abbey of Sparnstow, could never have imagined she would be called upon to help save one of the most dangerous men of the 12th and 13th centuries. Falling through a gap in time, she finds herself administering first aid to John, inadvertently endangering both herself and Giles.

Dr. Avi Zielinski, a retired professor with too much time on his hands, invents a working time machine - and his work draws the attention of two wealthy brothers with little love for America...Contrarily, Earl Grant and Clyde Jackson are the quintessential rednecks who have a passion for God, country, hunting, and beer - not always in that order. So when it's discovered that those wealthy brothers have stolen a working prototype from Dr. Zielinski’s lab, and plan to go back in time to drastically alter American history, there is no way they’re going to allow that to happen.

Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't. Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies.

The year 2057AD. Mankind is exploring the outer planets, but something goes terribly wrong. A probe is destroyed by the extreme gravitational force on the satellite of Uranus. Then, another anomaly sets the Moon on a collision course with Earth.

Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful supercollider and largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears washed up on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City - one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career.

Danger is never very far from our team. As Cooper deals with the inconceivable direction of his future, the rest of the team struggles to find their footing on two continents with miles of dangerous obstacles between them. Will they find their way home to safety or will they be forever doomed to look over their shoulders with the shadow of GenMed always seeming to fall across their paths?

Their love was a quiet, slow-growing thing that built from friendship, adventure, and shared experiences. In this final chapter of The Immortal Descendants series, Ringo and Charlie begin their own journey of love, laughter, and all the misadventures a pair of Victorian street urchins can encounter when they’ve traveled through time. Where, exactly, is home for two people who have journeyed so far, and if they find it, can they ever truly go back?

Ethan Duke, attorney at law, must discover a way to control the butterfly effects of time travel that have taken him hostage, using the tools familiar to him: reason and logic. But time, and those who manipulate it, just might have other ideas.

In the second book in this series of sci-fi short stories, Crew finds himself on his first mission. Placed in a new situation, he experiences new things and learning things about himself and his family that he never knew. This is the second in the Crew Chronicles series.

Time may be many things, but it is definitely not on our side. It always wins, no matter how much we struggle against it. Tales Out of Time: Writer on Demand, Vol. 3 includes four stories.

Third and final installment of Burrough's Caspak series takes on the adventures of Bradley and the other crew members of the U33 after Bowen J. Tyler Jr.'s disappearance from Fort Dinosaur in Book 1, The Land That Time Forgot. Bradley and his men fall prey to another humanesque species on Caspak, the terrible and terrifying Weiroo.

England, 1912. Emmeline Marshall has seven days of freedom left before she returns home to New York with her family, and her overbearing parents—who don't seem to get the hint she's not a little girl anymore—stick her into an odious finishing school that will make her into a "proper" lady. The freedom in question? The voyage across the Atlantic on the newest luxury ocean liner, the Titanic, where Emmeline meets the handsome and mysterious Leon.

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