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Across Time
| Author: | David Grinnell |
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Ace Books, 1968 Avalon Books, 1957 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Time Travel |
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Synopsis
Time traveling UFO's jerk our hero one million years into the future and launch him on a transgalactic venture, brightened by such incidental items as an attractive post homo race of evolved simian...
Excerpt
High in their mountain watchtower, testing a new device for tracking aircraft, Carl Halleck and his wife, Sylvia, saw blips on their radar screen that signaled the approach of Unidentified Flying Objects. They signaled Captain Zachary Halleck, back at the farmhouse, to turn off all power... immediately!
Zack recognized those blips, quickly turning into green dots, drawing closer to the isolated secret Air Force research station. They were exactly the same objects Zack had encountered earlier while test piloting the latest jets for the USAF. His skirmish with the UFO on that occasion had hospitalized him, resulting in his being sent here to assist the brother he hated and the sister-in-law who should have been his wife.
"Turn off the power now, goddamit - it's attracting them!" came the cry from the tower. Captain Halleck's hand closed on the switch, but he didn't finalize his move. He waited, his eyes fixed on the screen, anticipating the flare of light; then silence.
At that instant...
Copyright © 1957 by David Grinnell
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