Wouldn’t it be great to go back in
time? What day and
year would you select? Would you change anything if you could go back to a
particular day/year?
Time travel has been a common plot
device in fiction since the 19th century such as The Time
Machine by H. G. Wells. In
recent years we have seen it in film, TIMECOP and television,
JOURNEYMAN.
In
Twice Upon A Time, (Publisher: Community Press
ISBN-10: 0979087805)Philip A. Nero takes an old form and makes it new again.
Set during turbulent war times (Operation
Iraqi Freedom) Col. Ellis Adam Ellis drives
into a
thunderstorm that unleashes bizarre forces that launch him 30
years into the past. Col. Ellis Ellis lands in an upstate New York college
town on Super Bowl Sunday, 1970 and the story begins.
Twice Upon A Time is well
written, witty and the plot is thought provoking and believable. In a recent
interview the author says, “I
chose a setting and a storm to be my time machine. It was a lot easier than
building one and far more convincing than proving to readers I could. Storms
already have a reputation for messing with our lives. The way the media
reports on the possibility of a winter storm, for example, almost gives the
simple snowflake superpowers. Mountains have a kind of mystical quality to
them; and they’re a great literary image. Combine the two and the
implausible becomes believable, so long as the reader has at least some
willingness to suspend his or her disbelief. Why the ’60s? I’m thinking
probably because I liked the music and hated the war. More importantly, from
a time travel perspective, they fit the time frame.”
Twice Upon A Time is fun and
original. This is one of the best reads of the year.
Twice Upon A Time (Paperback)
by Philip A. Nero (Author)
Publisher: Community Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979087805
