LONG ISLAND, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Prepare for an adventure through time where the very fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Peter L. Russell tells an unforgettable story of the way the world is and how it could be in the new science fiction novel, The Timeman (now available through AuthorHouse).
Utilizing the pulp fiction style made popular in the 1950s, Russell pens an imaginative story of misfits, technology and the fabric of time. Nick Price is a baby boomer and a social outcast down on his luck. An aspiring architect with dreams of erecting skyscrapers, he lost his potential in a whirlwind of alcoholism and bad decisions. However, he is back on his feet and engaged to a beautiful art historian named Mary. Then, on Halloween, 2004, things become strange. A mysterious person slips an LSD-based pill into Nick's drink and abducts him into a bizarre world of time travel. Finding himself in Queens, N.Y., circa 1975, he reunites with his departed parents and brother, Thomas.
This new realm has a dark side, however. Roger Lincoln, time traveler and inventor, was born in 2005 and he has seen the utopian future where current negative patterns will lead. Rendered evil by a futuristic disease, he hides out in 1960s-era San Francisco, the epicenter of the hippie movement, and plots to destroy the future with technology and weapons of mass destruction. Nick is the reluctant hero who must stop this madman before he offsets the fabric of time and changes the future forever. However, Nick just wants to return to his quiet, comfortable life and fiance in 2004.
A long, strange trip through the pop culture of the last 100 years, The Timeman is a harsh vision of the present and hopeful glimpse at the future.
Russell lives on Long Island, N.Y., and is a poet and artist. The Timeman is his first novel.
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