The Writing Shop has announced
that the popular "Meridian" series time travel novels by John Schettler
will continue, with a fourth book entitled The Anvil of Fate due out this fall in eBook format, followed soon after by a fifth volume tentatively titled Golem 7.
In the fourth volume, Anvil of Fate, the cryptic ending of Touchstone is
clearly explained, and the project team now faces the most significant
attack yet from unseen adversaries in the future, an "intervention" at a
key moment in the 8th Century that threatens to completely alter the entire
course of Western history in an outcome that is absolutely catastrophic, to say the least. The project team sleuths through the history to identify three key "Pushpoints" or levers on the historical events, and to think of what may have happened here gives one a real shudder. VIDEO TEASER HERE
The fifth volume Golem 7 begins just days after the conclusion of volume IV and sees the project team finally attempting to reverse the effects of the Palma Event, which was restored to the timeline earlier in the series. But far from just being about 'unfinished business,' it stands on its own as a unique alternate history novel set in the early years of WWII. When Chief Historian Nordhausen puts his hand squarely on the neck of the man he believes is now responsible for the plot, the threads of his research lead the team into the midst of one of the greatest naval sagas of all time. The author has also ended this one with a deep hook that opens the possibility of further series novels "in the future." VIDEO TRAILER HERE
The Meridian series explores the
successful efforts of a project team at the Berkeley Lawrence Labs to
travel in time, and the opening book, Meridian, focuses on the
struggle to reverse a modern day terrorist event that makes 9/11 pale by
comparison. Building on the award winning success of the series opener,
two sequels have already been published, Nexus Point and Touchstone.
In the first sequel, Nexus Point,
the team discovers that their technology has been discovered and used
by adversaries in the future, and that a "Time War" is now underway
where each opposing side is attempting to influence key moments in the
meridians of history to alter events and secure a decisive cultural and
political advantage in their world of the future. The third volume, Touchstone,
sees the Berkeley team drawn further into the complex struggle in a harrowing mission to Egypt at the time of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone during Napoleon's invasion. Here they meet and
learn more about the adversaries in this Time War and are slowly
entangled in operations aimed at preserving the meridian of history as
they know it.
This trilogy of novels will soon be joined by these two new volumes to form a "quintet" of stories, all related to one another in one massive Time travel adventure series. But don't look for chase scenes and gunfire here, and there are no mandatory teenage characters or cute little kids about as in typical run of the mill Hollywood treatments of this genre. These novels are heady, intriguing looks at key crisis points in history where the effects of even minor interventions can cause major consequences.
This trilogy of novels will soon be joined by these two new volumes to form a "quintet" of stories, all related to one another in one massive Time travel adventure series. But don't look for chase scenes and gunfire here, and there are no mandatory teenage characters or cute little kids about as in typical run of the mill Hollywood treatments of this genre. These novels are heady, intriguing looks at key crisis points in history where the effects of even minor interventions can cause major consequences.
Ever since H.G. Wells first penned his landmark novel, The Time Machine,
the genre has been extremely popular in its ability to blend both
science and historical fiction together in one story. All the key
elements of the genre are here, a plausible theory of how time travel is
possible, incredible plot that has a new twist around every corner, the
confounding effects of paradox and, of course, time shifts into key
moments of the past where the team seeks to influence the "Pushpoints" of
history, the actual triggers that set off and influence the outcomes of
major events. Yet the theory here is that the really great events are
set in motion by small inconsequential moments in time, little
accidents, mishaps, stumbles, loose threads in the weave of time that
become the real movers and shakers of history. Sleuthing the history to
find these key moments makes up a large part of the fun and enjoyment in
these stories.The four key characters are sharply drawn, the dialogue crisp and intelligent, the plot well structured and full of surprises.
Both new novels are now in final review and should be available in the Amazon Kindle store, on Smashwords.com and many other popular eBook outlets this fall.
MERIDIAN SERIES VIDEO TRAILER FEATURING ALL FIVE NOVELS
