A Twist In Time

By Robert Holt

A Twist in Time: Thirteen stories of speculative fiction, comprising three novellas, one novelette, and nine short stories.

A Twist in Time: When astrophysicist Ray Flores learns why it takes an excessive amount of time for travel through a wormhole to an alien world, his discoveries bring Earth to the brink of another world war. (Novella)

A Business Proposition: What happens when an alien offers a business proposition in Santa Ana, California? What could possibly go wrong?

Shadows of the Past: Past, present and future collide when Professor Robert Farrell, paleontologist, and his students dig up a fossil from the Age of Dinosaurs. (Novella)

Too Much Magic: When apprentice sorcerers take final exams, don’t put them all in the same room!

Alternate Reality: What hazards might there be in working with worlds in other realities, other dimensions?

Adventures in Wildlife Exobiology: A pet cat is a pet cat, right? Even if it is on another world...right?

Landing Orientation: “Please put your seat backs and tray tables in their upright and locked positions. We will be landing in (Insert Destination Here) in twenty minutes.” You’ve probably heard that before. But have you heard this one?

Martian Misadventures: Planning an extended vacation? Probably not like this one!

Misfit: What happens if you end up on a planet where the food is poisonous, and you have no way home? Can you find help in time? (Novelette)

Time Waits: Have you ever had a long wait for something? Did the anticipation nearly drive you crazy? And just how much Time would it take to drive you there?

The Soul Cleaner: Rusty Timmons invents a new medical diagnostic device. How do his fame and fortune depend on a child’s misunderstanding?

The Adventure of the Glowing Bottles: In 1906, Marie Curie’s less famous husband, Dr. Pierre Curie died. But was it an accident, or murder? And why would anyone do such a thing? Follow Sherlock Holmes, the great consulting detective, as he unravels the mystery. (Novella)

An [Esc]apist Philosophy: Computer hacker, Peter Garcia discovers a novel method to evade the law.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Holt
• Release date: Jan 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310565489

Robert Holt

Robert Holt is a retired field biologist, having performed biodiversity surveys, and a former science teacher, having taught earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics at the secondary level. Beyond writing science curriculum and providing technical editing for science text books, he is currently working on two more anthologies of speculative fiction, and another novel. Robert’s hobbies include nature photography and collecting fossils, rocks and minerals. Although he and his wife presently reside in the State of Washington, his mind is often somewhere out in space...well, after all, his father was from Alpha Centauri... But that’s another story...

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