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Jack Jacobs and the Doomsday Time Machine | 
 enlarge | Author: Albert S. Abraham
Publisher: Blue Comet Books Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3603570
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 210
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0976974401
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780976974406
ASIN: 0976974401
Publication Date: November 30, 2005
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Product Description
In this futuristic science-fiction time travel puzzler, Jack Jacobs and his organic supercomputer, Jennifer, have been gone from Earth for sixteen years in their custom-designed spaceship secretly fitted with a device that facilitates moving back and forth through the space-time continuum at incredible speeds. Now they are finally arriving back on Earth and expecting it to be the year 2199, but strangely they find themselves not in the year 2199, but in the year 2099, exactly one-hundred years into the past. After some detailed analysis of the changes occurring to the space-time gravity field lines, they soon discover that an unimaginable anomaly is causing Earth and its history to go back in time. They quickly discover they must now jump inside their ship's time warp field each time the anomaly occurs just to keep from going back in time themselves and possibly ceasing to exist. But they soon find that this is only a temporary fix, as time dilations start to occur inside their own time tunnel. Their new investigative adventure suddenly becomes a matter of life and death as they continually struggle to calculate a change in their ship's own time warp field drive. In their quest to come up with an answer for how to overcome these strange dilations, they soon find themselves in a domain of time and space where no one has ever been before?
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Perfect book for sci-fi fans September 12, 2006
Reader Views (Austin, Texas)
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (8/06)
"Jack Jacobs and the Doomsday Time Machine" is written by Albert S. Abraham who works in aerospace engineering. Because of his career experience and education he writes very convincingly. He also includes a glossary that includes some real scientific definitions and some that are created from his perspective. This makes reading the story more fun. I don't know which is real and which isn't, but Abraham manages to write in a way that it all makes sense.
In this time travel story, Jack Jacobs and his sentient seeming supercomputer, Jennifer, have been traveling for some time in his space ship. It has a quantum gravity propulsion system that allows them to travel very quickly. When they arrive back on earth after one of their explorations, they discover that they are one hundred years in the past and when they try to fix it, they keep going further and further back in time. To correct this problem, they have to journey to another distant galaxy where they find a device that appears to be responsible for the time dilations. Along the way, through the time changes, they also discover that history is changing itself.
It was amusing to see that on one of its appearances back in time, the ship was assumed to be a UFO. Jack manages to make it disappear before any real harm is done.
This is a great book for Sci-Fi purists. I would highly recommend it to a science fiction readers group. I also recommend it to people that enjoy science fiction stories that take place in space.
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