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Time Of Destruction

Arthur Helman, an egomaniac businessman, is founder and majority stockholder of Lunarcom, the world’s largest electric power company. Lunarcom’s source of electric power is space solar power satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.

Lunarcom’s biggest competitor, Hydroteck, is about to test an innovative power production device called an IPT ( Interdimentional Power Transmitter ).
The IPT transmits power from the newly discovered Interdimension.
Helman believes that the success of Hydroteck’s IPT will ruin his company by providing energy at almost zero cost. He is afraid that he will lose the wealth and power that he has built over a lifetime.

Helman built his company to its present status using a stolen ‘time travel device.’ The device gives him absolute freedom of movement in time and space. He used the device to achieve the power he now has; he believes that he must use it again to hold on to that power.

At 1:17 PM CST on July 26, 2085, an unexpected explosive energy strikes the Earth. Billions of people are killed, and only a few Earth cities escape the massive destruction.

Carolyn Frazier, plant manager for a Helium-three (He3) fusion electric power plant in Houston, Texas is stranded a dozen miles away from her plant by the energy strikes. She struggles against unforeseen odds to make her way back to the plant, which later, under her leadership, becomes the focal point to the world trying to recover from the disaster.

Laura Engler, has just launched her small ship from the L-4 space colony, and is on her way back to the Moon. She witnesses the massive destruction on Earth from two-hundred-forty thousand miles away and is horrified, but then becomes determined to return to her fiancé on L-4.

Austin Johnson and Jerry Sheryl, two Hydroteck engineers working on the IPT project, are in Austin’s office in the Hydroteck building at the time of the energy strikes. They witness the sudden destruction of the Lunarcom Tower, and then their own building begins to collapse.

As the Hydroteck building collapses around them, Austin and Jerry become entrapped in a time paradox, moving in time between 2085 and 2245. Their lives become entangled with Caroline, Laura and Arthur, as they search on the Earth, the Moon, and the L-4 space colony, for the cause of the catastrophe, and for a key to prevent the “Time Of Destruction,”

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First published October 1, 2014

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1,248 reviews53 followers
June 11, 2017
Something different for all you military science fiction readers. This is definitely not military. I do take a break from all that shooting and killing stuff, although this book does wind up killing several billion people; yes, that’s billions of people! Quite the slaughter if I may say so, and they don’t even know what happened!

So you’re working on a new type of energy device called and an IPT (Interdimensional Power Transmitter). It opens up a portal to the interdimention where time stops and power is available in unlimited quantities and allows us in this dimension to draw that power for our use. This would obviously revolutionize the energy industry over night if one were in fact perfected. Of course, anytime you’re dealing with a power source, especially an unlimited power source, you have to be very, very careful. There is a possibility that you could open that portal and destroy our entire world. Not something you should take lightly. Unfortunately, there are people who exist in this world that don’t want the IPT to be a success.

You’ll meet several brilliant scientist who are working on the IPT development. Sometimes the cast of characters gets kind of confusing in that we have another little twist that involves time travel. Now, I’m not one that really believes in time travel of any kind, there’s just too much that could go wrong and I see no evidence that anyone in our timeline has gone back to fix anything, but the story here makes kind of plausible sense in the way time travel is presented and the results of someone’s actions when they go back in time. If this is getting confusing, read the book. It’s a good story. We have good guys/gals and bad guys (no bad gals). We have colonized the moon and have a permanent space colony orbiting near the moon with about ten thousand residents. So, this story is in the future. But it’s also in the past of that future and then some in the far, far past so you’ll have to read the book to understand any of this.

I liked the characters although the existence of some were explained better than others. Also, the author conveniently left out some important information, like who invented the time travel jackets and how did they come into the possession of Aisha and Nicholas? Also, there’s this confusing point about how the time travel jackets are powered. In one place it says “Stardust” is required and such “Stardust” can be harvested in the interdimention once a fully functional IPT is working. So, towards the end of the book when an IPT is fully functional, why do they still lament the fact that they are running out of Stardust and the time travel jackets won’t be usable any more? I might write and ask that question of the author.

Still, this is a good story, just not my normal kind. It’s kind of hard not to see paradoxes being created, but they don’t seem to be a problem for our time travelers. Even when they meet themselves nothing really happens immediately. So, get ready for some heavy brain work. Time of Destruction might become a series, but I’m not sure what the point of that would be.
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Author 21 books28 followers
October 22, 2017
***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR***

Having written a time-travel novel myself, I can understand how difficult continuity can be to ensure the story makes sense. In Time of Destruction, the continuity of events is certainly there, but it lacks in so many other areas as to make it almost unreadable. While the continuity of the timeline was well thought out, the continuity of details was not. From limiting the “time bubble” to 30 minutes of air, then allowing an antagonist to exist in the space for a full hour, to inconsistencies in the spelling of minor characters’ names (even on the same page), Time of Destruction has a good story buried deep within a mess of simple writing errata.

Right from the start, the format of the book highlights the author’s lack of quality control. From the right-hand pages having the page number in the gutter margin to the right-aligned text to inconsistent tabs, spacing, and section breaks, these visual clues immediately gave me the sense that this work was rushed out the door. Once I started reading, I found the context to be poorly written. Aside from dialogue that was consistently the same (“Blah blah,” character 1 SAID. “Blah blah,” SAID character 2, “blergle bah blah.” “Blah blah,” SAID character 1. Ad infinitum, even in two-person dialogue), on every single page, I could probably find a dozen proofreading errors, including missing punctuation, an almost obscene avoidance of hyphenation, and homophone abuse. In a book that’s nearly 400 pages long, these errors add up to over 4,500 moments where I was distracted from the story.

As for the story itself, I did appreciate some of the accuracies in how long it would take to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event. However, there were a few plotlines which were unnecessary (like the events on Earth immediately following the titular “time of destruction”), and some of the characters acted in irrational ways to get the result the author wanted (the romantic pairing of the time travelers seemed forced and unnatural from the start). Furthermore, the author’s vision of the near future (2085) is practically the present we live in right now, with regular space travel being the only advancement in the next 68 years. This book might have worked better as two separate books, covering the destruction of Earth and the time-travel aspect to prevent it, respectively. As it is right now, the ending doesn’t make sense, and there’s too much “filler” to justify a book of this length.

A neat idea, riddled with errors most High School students could fix, I give Time of Destruction 2.0 stars out of 5.

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Author 8 books18 followers
March 29, 2017
Time of Destruction is a nicely written and deeply-plotted sci-fi book covering (but not limited to) the following subjects: Innovative and advanced energy sources; humans living and thriving in space; corporate enemies battling each other, and near destruction of the Earth as a result; and, time travel adventure.

The imaginative time-traveling possibilities in the work offer a new twist on the subject—especially regarding the actual travel—affording people the possibility of changing the past, in order to save the future; and in helping other versions of oneself by offering alternatives to prior choices, and their often-negative consequences. There are numerous subplots that keep the tension going throughout the work.

John C. Meyer has given us an engaging, well-paced, and surprisingly captivating story, full of twists, emotion, danger, heroism, along with a cadre of friends and fellow humans that endeavor to understand the complexities of choice, reconciliation, servitude, purpose, and destiny.
The characters are well-formed, dynamic, and likable (or hate-able). The explanations for the science carries the Reader, and is convincing for the most part. And the final outcomes amongst the characters, as well as humanity as a whole, were heartening.

Time of Destruction was an enjoyable read, and worth the effort. Looking forward to this author’s next book.

G. F. Smith
Author of the sci-fi thriller, Smartbrain
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Author 31 books44 followers
April 14, 2018
tIME AND SPACE ARE PLAYING SERPENTS BITING THEIR TAILS

If you do not like science fiction, forget about this book. It is pure science fiction and it plays with time as if it were chess and the author had to avoid twenty hostile players beleaguered against him, the author of course since the characters are nothing but characters, puppets at the tips of his fingers.

That is the most striking element in this novel. The complexity of times and places, the navigation from one time to another over two centuries, the possibility to navigate like that in time as if it were the various carriages of a train, in any direction, plus you can stop time and make it grey and do what you have to do unknown to anyone and then you start time again, so that you can spy on everything and everyone from under the table as if you were a fly on the wall.

Humanity in a close future is going to develop a new generation of power stations that will solve the energy problem and open up the cosmos to human navigation, this time as physical as possible, knowing that time travel had to be on earth because of the need to have air to survive. But the rivalry between two firms, two corporations, two sets of people leads one to sabotaging the invention of the other and they destroy Houston at the same time and in fact humanity – as if Houston were the whole humanity.

The scientists who have this technology in their heads are saved by some time traveler from the future, from a time after the destruction to help the surviving humans in the distant future produce this new source of energy and there you are entangled in a network of rivalries that is absolutely impossible to disentangle, except with treachery, crooked means, spying and plotting.

Just to give you a taste of these entanglements, here is a short explanation.

"Austin and I, as you know,” Jerry said, “were thrown into the time paradox in 2085 when Aisha and Nicholas rescued us from the destruction. Shortly after that, we began trying to untangle the paradox caused by our rescue, but everything we did seemed to add more convolutions to the original paradox. If you read Austin’s journal, you know a lot of the story up to the point three years ago, when Aisha and I came here to read Austin's letter. Aisha, I know, was reluctant to have me act on it."

If you like such complicated and shifting times and places, characters, and untrustworthy situations, this is a novel for you. If you like straight linear storylines, you should try to look for some sunshine under another sky, like Snow-white and the seven dwarves. But I would say you would miss something. I got lost in the story but I asked my mental Sherlock Holmes and his H.G. Wells to help me find my way in this wild time forest and sure enough, I managed to sort out the Morlocks from the Eloi and there I was back on track.

This science fiction is supposed to lose its readers in the marshes of timelessness in order to loosen their temporal and spatial minds and to make them receptive to shifting grounds, people, and motivations. The author is doing a fair job at trapping us in his multifaceted mirror that gives twenty pictures of my own self in less than five pages and I don’t even know after a while is I am not part of the story itself, if I am not a literary puppet in the hands of a crazy author who is swallowing me up in his ranting story. And soon enough I am like a lynx in a tree howling wildly and calling for help. But that is what science fiction is all about. It makes you wild. Thank you, master of ceremony, and till next time, though I cannot say if it is going to be in the past or in the future, or maybe even in the past in the future.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
84 reviews4 followers
August 16, 2021
This is an engaging read, but beware, you need to read it quickly or you will lose yourself in a web of time travel paradoxes. I really enjoyed the mind-bending timelines along with a sufficiently believable scientific premise that the story holds together. If there was anything I would criticize, it was the lack of editing with many spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. However, the plot and characters were interesting enough to allow me to overlook those issues. I would read more by this author.
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15 reviews
November 18, 2017
This is a cleverly written story that harkens to early days of science fiction. In the old days, the later half of the 1960's, there was a show on television called Time T unnel. Anthony & Tony traveled forward and backward through time, on one missi on or another. Alas, it only lasted one season. John Meyer wrote Time of Destruction with a similar theme. His though, is 160 ye ars after earth goes through an apocalyptic transformation. The characters in eac h of the 3 eras, 2245, 2085 & 2058; three different points in time. The future party c oordinates with the earliest party to save the world from the annihilation of human ity by the middle party. This story is entertaining with comedic interludes & splashes of technology that w ould be cool, had it become real, thrown in. Time has shown that authors who writ e in the scifi genre, tend to have premonitions about future man. Look at Robert H einlein, Isaac Asimov and Hugh Howey. The only CON I drew from the story is, you really have to have a clear head to follow all the "popping in and out" from the tim e traveling. lolol! All in all, I enjoyed story, You will too!
311 reviews1 follower
August 13, 2018
Tired

Did not find this book to be worth the read. It was a poor version of some poorly developed sci-fi tv shows about time travel added to big money conspiracies.
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190 reviews11 followers
January 11, 2017
Mind bending time traveling adventures to change history and destiny

Not since Philip K Dick's science fictions or Andy Weir's "The Martian' have I enjoyed another science fiction such as John Meyer's 'Time of Destruction' because of the fascinating subject of time traveling. John Meyer introduced the concept of navigating not just temporally but also spatially such that our time travelers can navigate themselves or pass through solid objects. The motives of time traveling were to change history and destiny, like preventing a loved one's untimely death or the genocidal act of an evil man.

I believe no one can change history or destiny. That is most definitely so if we talk about one time line. But perhaps if we are opened to the possibilities of many parallel worlds and timelines, we can then let our imagination run wild with John Meyer's heroes and heroines zipping to and fro back in time trying to prevent catastrophic events like the deaths of billions of people, obviously believing that they could alter destiny or fate. But should these travelers from the future not disappear as soon as they were altering history or have they created another timeline while the the previous timeline continues on unchanged as a parallel world. This concept of traveling back in time to change history presents many points interesting ideas for me. Stephen Hawking's "a brief history of time" argued that the time travelers from the future would appear in the current timeline as it as been destined in the first place. So nothing has changed or will be changed.
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Author 6 books65 followers
March 19, 2017
A very good and engaging time travel story, set in the year of 2085.
Won't spoil it, so won't say more. You have to get it, to find out what is really happening.
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120 reviews70 followers
February 2, 2017
My brain hurts after trying to keep up with the time paradox, but that’s only because I personally can’t wrap my mind around it. I’m the last person who should be reviewing this book based on that alone. However, the fact the author hooked me into this world should give you enough of a reason to pick it up yourself.

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Author 10 books59 followers
January 7, 2017
Space Time Hopping Mystery

A very engaging tale of space & time travel to stop a terrible catastrophe. It is difficult to keep track of the action because of slipping through time. Fun and worth the struggle. This book was submitted in exchange for an honest review and was read and reviewed by the mister in the house.
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