What do you think?
Rate this book
Lens of Time #1
The Pyramid Builders
Dr. Christopher Connor has discovered a way to view the past. His invention collects light and focuses it such that events that occurred on Earth years ago can be viewed. All one need do is travel one light year away and one can see what was happening on the planet a year earlier by capturing and focusing the reflected light that left Earth a year ago. There’s only one problem: no ship exists that can travel faster than the speed of light, so his device cannot be conclusively demonstrated to function as advertised. That’s fine with Christopher, who would much rather party and have a good time rather than defend his creation against critics and governmental bureaucrats. Besides, who would pay to view the past anyway?
Jillian Gordon, an Egyptologist with a PhD in Quantum Physics, has discovered that the survival of Earth depends on viewing what happened at the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu five thousand years in the past. Christopher’s device would allow her to do just that and she intends to draft him into the project. Christopher is about to discover that the organization Jillian works for has engineered a starship with a faster-than-light drive, which will now allow his device to be field tested. The stardrive for that ship was developed from diagrams carved on the back of an ancient stone tablet excavated at the site of the Great Pyramid.
Life for Christopher is about to make a radical departure from his party, happy-go-lucky lifestyle. Getting Christopher to focus on what needs to be done is a problem Jillian hadn’t counted on in her quest to save humanity. The predicted destruction of Earth, which is carved on the front of the tablet, doesn’t leave her much time and Christopher isn’t cooperating.
What neither of them know is that the answer to survival is more than sixty five million light years away in light that left Earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
Jillian Gordon, an Egyptologist with a PhD in Quantum Physics, has discovered that the survival of Earth depends on viewing what happened at the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu five thousand years in the past. Christopher’s device would allow her to do just that and she intends to draft him into the project. Christopher is about to discover that the organization Jillian works for has engineered a starship with a faster-than-light drive, which will now allow his device to be field tested. The stardrive for that ship was developed from diagrams carved on the back of an ancient stone tablet excavated at the site of the Great Pyramid.
Life for Christopher is about to make a radical departure from his party, happy-go-lucky lifestyle. Getting Christopher to focus on what needs to be done is a problem Jillian hadn’t counted on in her quest to save humanity. The predicted destruction of Earth, which is carved on the front of the tablet, doesn’t leave her much time and Christopher isn’t cooperating.
What neither of them know is that the answer to survival is more than sixty five million light years away in light that left Earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 11, 2012
86 people are currently reading
136 people want to read
About the author
Saxon Andrew
118 books100 followersSaxon Andrew is a former social worker with a degree in Psychology and Education from Mercer University. He has taught school, managed several sales organizations and owned his own business.
He has devoured science fiction since he first learned to read and his stories are the product of years of personal experience and exposure to the universes created by the genre’s great authors.
He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two dogs who still appreciate his sense of humor after all these years. "Dogs are always ready to smile."
He has devoured science fiction since he first learned to read and his stories are the product of years of personal experience and exposure to the universes created by the genre’s great authors.
He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two dogs who still appreciate his sense of humor after all these years. "Dogs are always ready to smile."
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 10 of 10 reviews
May 4, 2024
Good read.
This was a good read . It was well written and has a great storyline. The book is about traveling back in time to see what happened in Egypt and they discovered aliens were involved and still are to this day . lots of action in about the middle of the book and gets better as it goes on.
This was a good read . It was well written and has a great storyline. The book is about traveling back in time to see what happened in Egypt and they discovered aliens were involved and still are to this day . lots of action in about the middle of the book and gets better as it goes on.
August 21, 2020
Excellent
Decent story, good technology, (except that it is acquired too fast and is too dangerous). Excellent comment about the oceans being full of predators and comparing that to the galaxy. I bet it's full of things that bite.
Decent story, good technology, (except that it is acquired too fast and is too dangerous). Excellent comment about the oceans being full of predators and comparing that to the galaxy. I bet it's full of things that bite.
January 20, 2020
A fine start
A good book as fiction goes. The second book should be good if it follows the same story line. Interested in seeing the outcome of this series
A good book as fiction goes. The second book should be good if it follows the same story line. Interested in seeing the outcome of this series
February 1, 2020
A very fast pace read. Fun Fun.
August 6, 2012
"The Pyramid Builders: Lens of Time Series, Book 1", by Saxon Andrew, is a classic space opera... one of the best new ones I've read in a long time. This book had everything you could hope for in a Sci-Fi space opera during a time when global interest is on Pyramids, aliens and the end of Earth as we know it. There was virtual time travel - both forward and backward. There were super-duper faster-than-the-speed-of-light hyper-drive space ships. There were force fields. There were anti-gravity guns. There were laser beams capable of massive devastation, nuclear fusion reactor warheads, real-time communication across millions of light years, and virtually instantaneous "jumping" millions of light years across the universe. All the females characters were brilliant academically, and unsurpassed in physical beauty. They could out-fight any man in hand to hand combat, because they TAUGHT the military men how to fight. Then, there were aliens... all kinds of aliens. At least 4 different alien species with varying attitudes about what constitutes normal interpersonal relations. Earth finally learned how the pyramids were built. However, when they realized WHY the pyramids were built, they began to realize maybe they shouldn't just automatically trust all the aliens, or take them at their word. And just what did 4 different alien species want in our solar system, anyway? How did Earth end up with all the best technology, while the alien species who originally invented it hadn't advanced much... in some cases, for 65 million years they hadn't advanced in technology. How could that be? And one more thing... why DID they build the pyramids?
I have to say, if you haven't guessed by now, that I loved this book! This is one of those books I would happily start right over and read again, if not for the fact that Book 2 in the series is now out; it's called "Planet Predators", and I intend to grab it as quickly as I can, because it starts from where this one ended. I absolutely, positively recommend this book for everybody who ever even thought about reading a good Sci-Fi space opera. You'll look long and hard before you find a better one. Excellent work, Mr. Andrew! Thank you for writing this!
I have to say, if you haven't guessed by now, that I loved this book! This is one of those books I would happily start right over and read again, if not for the fact that Book 2 in the series is now out; it's called "Planet Predators", and I intend to grab it as quickly as I can, because it starts from where this one ended. I absolutely, positively recommend this book for everybody who ever even thought about reading a good Sci-Fi space opera. You'll look long and hard before you find a better one. Excellent work, Mr. Andrew! Thank you for writing this!
June 18, 2012
This is another good book from Andrew Saxon. As usual I would put this one in the Young Adult category. It pretty much follows the same (or at least a similar) formula as his Annihilation series which means that the good guys are really good guys and the bad guys are really bad guys and the latter threatens to destroy civilization as we know it. Nothing bad in that but the enormous single minded “goodness”, you almost get the impression they are all old style Superman characters, of the good guys can sometimes be a bit overwhelming.
However, that little fault is well outweighed by the boyish adventurism which explodes onto the page with exploration and massive space battles in equal dozes. This book includes an aspect of time travel which I’m normally not too keen for. It just introduces to many paradoxes which are impossible to explain, even in a science fiction book. So far they have not done anything too stupid though so, fingers crossed.
So, in short, a very enjoyable light read. It’s fairly short though, especially since the pages do gets turned rather quickly.
However, that little fault is well outweighed by the boyish adventurism which explodes onto the page with exploration and massive space battles in equal dozes. This book includes an aspect of time travel which I’m normally not too keen for. It just introduces to many paradoxes which are impossible to explain, even in a science fiction book. So far they have not done anything too stupid though so, fingers crossed.
So, in short, a very enjoyable light read. It’s fairly short though, especially since the pages do gets turned rather quickly.
September 9, 2012
I was very disappointed in this book. I was expecting a science fiction story. What a got was light science fiction included in a mushy, disjointed Lifetime TV type book. I found it necessary to skip over large portions of the book. It was a struggle just to get to the end. The only satisfying part was I did finish it. The SF story has a lot of potential. Too many words were wasted on a completely unrelated love story. I will not waste any more time with this author. Back to Vaughn Heppner!
September 26, 2014
Enjoyed this book.
The story unfolds quickly and grabs the reader. Fasten your seatbelt for
fast plot developments and action scenes. The main characters are amazing in their engineering creations. A bit of clean romance and suspense rounds out the plot for an enjoying read.
The story unfolds quickly and grabs the reader. Fasten your seatbelt for
fast plot developments and action scenes. The main characters are amazing in their engineering creations. A bit of clean romance and suspense rounds out the plot for an enjoying read.
September 21, 2012
Liking the story as it's quite nicely paced. Not entirely sure about all the "love" though. I'll know more after I read the next book ;-)
December 19, 2015
Good read, good guys act like they are. enjoyed very much
Displaying 1 - 10 of 10 reviews