Ergebnis für "betten" in Zeitreisen

Denver, Colorado, 2009. Nicholas Smith is done with the world. After losing his wife in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the devastated engineering professor sees only one way to escape his grief. But when he leaps from a waterfall into the waiting arms of oblivion, the haunted man of science instead finds himself impossibly catapulted into the year 3010. Tortured at the hands of a despotic dictator, Nicholas refuses to cooperate despite being threatened with execution.

Aggie May, newly and unhappily retired from teaching, fears dementia when she begins to see visions from the past, like a 1950s-era Super Constellation at JFK airport and World War II soldiers at Grand Central Terminal. Then she gets a recruitment visit from Abe Irving of the American Association of Remarkable Persons (“the other AARP”) who explains she has developed the ability to travel through time.

Nicholas Smith thought he was done with time travel. Rocketed back to 2008 after a triumphant victory over a tyrannical government, the heroic engineering professor embarks on a second-chance mission to prevent the death of his beloved spouse. But his inner conflict spins into a roiling storm as he ponders the consequences of playing God…and how it could annihilate all he battled to save. Already struggling with the possibilities of paradox, Nicholas doesn’t know which way to turn when an army major argues that destiny demands he help her steal nuclear weapons.

A Better Tomorrow is an action-packed sci-fi about Jordan, a common elementary school teacher and children's author who gets caught up in an extraordinary experiment after his fiancée is murdered. Jordan's consciousness was shifted from his present body to a different body in the past in another universe. When attempting to stop the murderer he failed to save her and accidentally killed someone else. He is stuck in an alternate universe as a fugitive running from the police and seeking redemption for his fiancée's death. Meanwhile, he must reach Dr. Charles, the leader of the experiment and the only one who can get him back to his true existence. He loses his grip on reality as his consciousness slips between different circumstances, making it hard to know what is real and what is in his mind. Believing nothing to be reality, he went from being a common man to a reckless fugitive who won't stop until he finds a universe where his fiancée is still alive.