"His ability to submerge you so completely into what feels like a very real alternate world is amazing." - Amazon 5-star review.
August, 1885: Somewhere in Arizona. Ten people awake to find themselves in an isolated ghost town in the middle of the desert. How did they get there? Why were they abducted from their homes? What is the shadowy presence watching their every move?
February, 1937: Venice. The city is in the middle of Carnival festivities, but behind the masks, fireworks and gaiety, a nameless evil haunts the streets and canals. The insane theories of the renegade scientist Professor Danilov are about to have a momentous effect on the rise to power of Adolf Hitler ... and the mysterious Plague Doctors are waiting in the shadows ...
October, 1987: London. A British Army EOD unit is frantically trying to defuse an armed nuclear bomb in the center of the capital. Their best man, Senior Explosives Officer Christopher Owen, is on site. He is working without food, without rest, and without fear ... because SEO Owen is no longer human ...
Enter the mysterious, maddening worlds that lie "Beyond Tomorrow". Twelve tales of futures that never were … and yesterdays that are yet to be …
The author notes in the book that he changed his stories to give them an updated perspective, but that makes most of the stories seem outdated, instead.
My favorite stories are The Day the Factory Exploded, Memorabilia and A Banquet of Spiders. They all have a great beginning, middle and ending.
Some of the stories are too long to be a short story. And a few are weird or boring, or just don’t make sense.
So I give them three stars. With my favorites being five stars, it brings the book down to 3.5 stars. Rounding down to three stars.