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TIMELINER!

The fascinating and provocative story of Hugh Macklin - an alien lost in endless futures - fighting desperately to return to his own era.

He had a good life in our time with a beautiful wife and a promising career. Then, without warning, in a fraction of a second, he was shot 80 years into the future. He was out ahead of everything he knew, excavating for uranium on the moon in another man's body!

Here is a provocative story of tomorrow and of one man forced to fight through future eras to return to his own world and his own identity.

MATHER'S DILEMMA

Soldier of fortune Eric Mathers has signed on to help in a war among the European nations that resembles what in our timestream is called World War I. But this war continues in the 1970's, and involves an army called the American Colonial Forces--said to be subjects of Britain's King George X!

The non-human Kriths, whom Eric worked for, tell him they are altering history to forestall a time-wide catastrophe that their hypertechnology has told them is inevitable. But then the anti-Krith forces Eric encounters tell him his whole rationale for his life as a Krith soldier is false.

On Eric's resolution of this dilemma hangs the existence of all civilizations in all timestreams--hangs, in fact, the existence of existence itself. Or so it seems...

AN INVASION FROM SPACE IN THE YEAR 4000 A.D. WILL WIPE OUT ALL LIFE...

That terrifying message is received by the Kriths, strange creatures from an alternate Earth. And so the Timeliners are formed: fierce commandos that skudd through alternate worlds, battling the present in hopes of changing the future.

But how honorable, really, are the Kriths' motives? This question and others gnawed at Eric Mathers each time he killed for the Kriths. Such disloyalty brought him a death sentence from his former masters.

Now Eric is hiding in a parallel line, waging the war he is so used to. Buth this time he kills for semifeudal powers invading the North American continent. His enemies are men.. and sometines not. If the answers are here, Eric will find them--or die trying.

ALIENS HAVE MEDDLED WITH TIME, CREATING COUNTLESS PARALLEL WORLDS IN THE PROCESS.

But as Eric Mathers desperately skudds through a dazzling array of Timelines, they crumble around him. The prophecy of a catastrophe in the far future is coming true now!

Eric's survival depends on two things. He must follow the direction of a phantom force known only as the Shadowy Man, And he must travel to a parallel Earth in search of a true time machine. But to obtain it, Eric becomes the general of an army--of his own clones. And that is only the beginning...