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All Time
A TWISTING, HEART-WRENCHING NEW SERIES THAT CAPTURES A DYSTOPIAN THRILLER, A TIME TRAVEL ODYSSEY AND A LOVE STORY SPANNING THE AGES—FROM THE WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL JAMES WHITE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION.
Born on opposite ends of history. Together, they will rewrite it.
YEAR 2097. Miranda Hawking thinks she’s a nobody. Little does she know, while she has been toiling away in the back rooms of her family business, her parents have been secretly crafting an invention that may change life for every human being spread across the stars. When the shadowy Information Police converge on her home, she is launched into a network of intrigue that will take her through the inner circle of the most powerful force in the galaxy, to the edge of the lens capable of bending time itself…
YEAR 1056. Friskin York, on the other hand, really is a nobody. After spending all day working the fields, he is a treated to a night learning painting on a frigid mountainside with the Old Master, his irascible mentor. When a disturbed young woman materializes in the forest, muttering abject lunacy, Friskin must decide whether it’s worth endangering his already precarious reputation in order to look after this obvious suspect of witchcraft.
Together, Friskin and Miranda must navigate a relationship with implications for everyone, past and future… and not lose each other in the process.
Dive into the epic, genre-bending saga reviewers are calling “simply world-class,” “often hilarious” and “beautifully lyrical science fiction.”
Be sure to check out All Time: Voidbound, the first book in the All Time Expanded Universe!
Born on opposite ends of history. Together, they will rewrite it.
YEAR 2097. Miranda Hawking thinks she’s a nobody. Little does she know, while she has been toiling away in the back rooms of her family business, her parents have been secretly crafting an invention that may change life for every human being spread across the stars. When the shadowy Information Police converge on her home, she is launched into a network of intrigue that will take her through the inner circle of the most powerful force in the galaxy, to the edge of the lens capable of bending time itself…
YEAR 1056. Friskin York, on the other hand, really is a nobody. After spending all day working the fields, he is a treated to a night learning painting on a frigid mountainside with the Old Master, his irascible mentor. When a disturbed young woman materializes in the forest, muttering abject lunacy, Friskin must decide whether it’s worth endangering his already precarious reputation in order to look after this obvious suspect of witchcraft.
Together, Friskin and Miranda must navigate a relationship with implications for everyone, past and future… and not lose each other in the process.
Dive into the epic, genre-bending saga reviewers are calling “simply world-class,” “often hilarious” and “beautifully lyrical science fiction.”
Be sure to check out All Time: Voidbound, the first book in the All Time Expanded Universe!
257 pages, ebook
Published January 9, 2019
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About the author
Mack Leonard
7 books4 followersMack Leonard is a winner of the James White Award for Science Fiction and an Honoree of The Year's Best Science Fiction of 2015. His works have been published in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy. In 2017, he released Chambers of the Endless Heart, a collection of short stories. His latest work is the All Time series.
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February 24, 2019
First in the ALL TIME Series, beautifully lyrical science fiction with the flavor of excellent fantasy. 24th century Miranda Hawking (apropos surname!) grows to maturity in a refuge for burnt-out channelers of artificial intelligence--those who "step down" vast philosophical, astrophysical, mathematical concepts to a level puny-brained humans can understand.
Unexpectedly Miranda finds herself in the dark night of consciousness, the Dark Ages. Even more unexpectedly, she finds herself falling in love--a love for the Ages.
Unexpectedly Miranda finds herself in the dark night of consciousness, the Dark Ages. Even more unexpectedly, she finds herself falling in love--a love for the Ages.
February 11, 2019
It took me a little bit to get into this, but once I did it went well. It's a good story, less an adult romance and more YA. I was disappointed that the big baby reveal was a surprise, I'd like to have read the scene that led to that. I like how the author sets up the next book and points out that all is not how it appears to be back home in the future. Overall though, A good first effort and I'll be interested to see where the series goes.
April 10, 2019
In the year 2397, Miranda Hawking is living with her parents at the Hawking Refuge for Troubled Intelligences, a “retirement” sanctuary for used-up channelers. These synthetic beings, in their prime, had interfaced with the most powerful artificial intelligences that guided the universe and then interpreted their thoughts in a way humans could understand.
Many of the channelers eventually succumbed to the pressures of their responsibilities and, if they were lucky, ended up at the Refuge cared for by Miranda and her loving parents but forbidden from ever contacting their master intelligence again. One such resident is the mysterious (in Miranda’s teenage-crush eyes), Brightside, who had been channeler to the great master intelligence, OMNIUM.
When the Information Police come knocking, Miranda discovers not everything at the sanctuary is as tranquil and mundane as she’d thought. Not only has Brightside been in communication with his old master but her mother is involved in something with him as well.Helping Brightside to escape, Miranda attempts to find out what is going on. She joins Brightside onboard a subspace ferry and next finds herself face to face with Altrius Prime, the highest political authority in the solar system (and the oldest one), who she prevents from committing suicide by making an unauthorized time jump.
As she disrupts his plans, Miranda herself makes the jump and ends up on a wooded mountainside in the year 1058. No sooner has she gathered her senses from the jump when she is attacked by a warrior from the invading horde known as the Holders of the Chain.Her rescuer is an apprenticed painter, Friskin York, who along with his master had been on the mountain to capture the magnificent vista. Miranda slowly falls for Friskin as the three travel to find a place of safety from the invasion and search for her parents who tried to follow her during her accidental time jump.
All Time is an engrossing story with great characters and vivid world-building not only of a far future but of the past. There are numerous twists and turns along the way as Miranda tries to understand her new reality and she doesn’t always find herself welcome. There are unresolved issues in this first book that I definitely will pursue in subsequent books in the series.I highly recommend this book for readers that like time travel stories and grand adventures.
July 16, 2019
We're Not In Egypt🌇
This book flips back and forth from Miranda, a young woman living far in the future in 2397, to Friskin, a poor painter living back in 1093, the distant past.
The time changes with a new chapter, so no confusion there.
In 2397, time travel has been invented, and there are androids and artificial people living among the natural born people.
The androids interface with the AI intelligence OMNIUM.
Miranda's parents run a refuge for old burned out androids. Brightside, a resident, isn't so burned out it seems! Even though he is over a hundred years old, he looks like a handsome young man in his twenties.
Miranda has a teenage crush on him! When the Information Police come looking for Brightside, she sends him away, assuming the worst from the police. In reality, they need his help!
The chancellor of the world, a dying man at age 256, wants to go back In time to ancient Egypt. Brightside and Miranda catch a space ferry to the time machine. It's a special vessel floating in space. Brightside tries to stop the Chancellor, but a force field around his body ends up knocking Miranda into the time machine. Then her parents follow her!
Of course they end up in Old England, in Friskin's time!
ARC Received Byron Hidden 💎 Gems
I also got the book with Amazon KU.
I really enjoyed this completely different kind of time travel adult romance! Recommend for lovers of sci-fi and time travel genres. The published book does NOT have the typos that other ARC readers complained about.
This book flips back and forth from Miranda, a young woman living far in the future in 2397, to Friskin, a poor painter living back in 1093, the distant past.
The time changes with a new chapter, so no confusion there.
In 2397, time travel has been invented, and there are androids and artificial people living among the natural born people.
The androids interface with the AI intelligence OMNIUM.
Miranda's parents run a refuge for old burned out androids. Brightside, a resident, isn't so burned out it seems! Even though he is over a hundred years old, he looks like a handsome young man in his twenties.
Miranda has a teenage crush on him! When the Information Police come looking for Brightside, she sends him away, assuming the worst from the police. In reality, they need his help!
The chancellor of the world, a dying man at age 256, wants to go back In time to ancient Egypt. Brightside and Miranda catch a space ferry to the time machine. It's a special vessel floating in space. Brightside tries to stop the Chancellor, but a force field around his body ends up knocking Miranda into the time machine. Then her parents follow her!
Of course they end up in Old England, in Friskin's time!
ARC Received Byron Hidden 💎 Gems
I also got the book with Amazon KU.
I really enjoyed this completely different kind of time travel adult romance! Recommend for lovers of sci-fi and time travel genres. The published book does NOT have the typos that other ARC readers complained about.
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