Yesterday Makers: A Story from a Time Machine

By Russell Kightley

Paxton wants vengeance, and his time ship—which he barely understands—can give it to him. And all without the paradoxes. But there's less to Paxton's world than he realises—much less. Pierce is Paxton's mentor. Pierce is smart and charismatic and highly evolved, but he can't help Paxton. And Pierce has bigger fish to fry. A creative act—a weird collaboration between a woman and a machine—underpins everything. But everything has a cost...

Multi-layered time travel to undermine your reality…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Russell Kightley
• Release date: Jul 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9780645159516

Russell Kightley

Russell Kightley has been writing sci-fi stories since 2014. His books are philosophical science fiction / literary fiction / magical realism with a slice of satire and a twist of time travel. Often, they explore the nature of consciousness and reality, but they’re written in a light and easy style, often with wordplay. Russell Kightley, a long time scientific illustrator, lives in Canberra, the capital of Australia, with his wife, an astrophysicist, and his younger daughter, a science student. His elder daughter is a well-known model. Ollie the shih-tzu lives with him and features in some of the stories.

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