Bound in Time (Mayflower Books) - Softcover

Bound in Time (Mayflower Books)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 288 pages. cover and spine worn, text foxed/tannedDr. Mark Elver can only stare at the man sitting across from him. Joe Heimbla tt has just proposed the impossible ? time travel.However, after viewin g the successful tests and experiments, Mark is strangely tempted by the possibi lity. Recently diagnosed with a heart condition that reduces his life expectancy to a couple years, he agrees to be the first human guinea pig and jump more tha n 400 years into the future.The future can only be an improvement. New te chnology may mean a way to save his life. Or if not, at least he gets to travel and experience something new before he leaves.After arriving, Mark finds the future to be a strange and dangerous place. He encounters primitive children among sophisticated technology. The dangers of the future Earth haven?t even begun to reveal themselves?After being whisked into space by a strange people, he discovers a rather soporific society living, self-contained, on a spa ce station. Upon learning that Joe has followed him into the future, Mark follow s in his steps and makes his way to the people living on the Moon.Though Mark hated how the station was run, he quickly discovers that life on the Moon i s dangerous; trading no leadership for a dictatorship was not beneficial. Will he be able to return to Earth?Bound in Time, Mark learns about human nature, survival and passion in a brilliantly prophetic and timeless journey. T his suspenseful story gives readers a gut-wrenching look at a possible future an d what happens when humanity pushes too far.Praise for D. F. Jones? ?Full marks for this technological horror story. A combination of cyberneti cs and suspense that adds up to real SF? ? Sunday Citizen?A whip-cr. Artikel-Nr. 6912br

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