{"product_id":"tiny-time-machine-9781097901043","title":"Tiny Time Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e★★★★★ \u003cb\u003e\"A new high-concept idea for time travel!\" \u003c\/b\u003e- Reader review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll life on Earth will die of thirst unless a couple of loners on the run can use a strange time machine to stop a secret project! An action-packed short novel from a Nebula Award nominee.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg is an angry scientist's daughter. Her father is not a mad scientist, just really angry - so angry that he and Meg have rarely spoken since the death of her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg has become a loner, obsessed with combatting polluters like the ones who triggered her mother's death. And her father has had a different obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Meg breaks into a paint company to expose their practices, she runs into Josh, another loner out to save the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Meg and Josh suddenly find themselves on the run from the cops, Meg heads for the one man who should always take her in--her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut when Meg and Josh reach him, they find him dying. Just before he dies, he gives Meg a strange device that looks like a cellphone and tells her to use extreme caution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the invention proves to be the time machine that holds the key to humanity's future, Meg and Josh must find a way to do the impossible--to work as a team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are up against the cops, a powerful billionaire, a Russian profiteer, and a romantic rival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan they save the world, and save each other?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout Stith's prior work: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stith writes in the best hard-sf manner, dropping characters into a situation that can be solved only by thought and reason, but he also, more modernly, creates real and believable characters. He is becoming one of the most eloquent modern hard-sf practitioners.\" - \u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrder your copy and join the quest for humanity's survival, today!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456549851410,"sku":"9781097901043","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b397867-cf4f-45e5-bee8-31d04e737ea4.jpg?v=1729914054","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tiny-time-machine-9781097901043","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}