Jack Jacobs and the Doomsday Time Machine [Hardcover]

Albert S. Abraham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 21, 2006

In this futuristic 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 quantum gravity propulsion system. When they finally arrive back to Earth, they expect it to be in the year 2199, but find the planet is one-hundred years into their past. After Jennifer begins analyzing the characteristics of the Earth’s sun and its magnetic field, she discovers that what has happened to Earth is related to an event inside of another galaxy. It is a galaxy that their spaceship’s silicon-based computer also said Jack Jacobs had discovered, yet he has no recollections of ever discovering it. In their quest to come up with answers, they find they are caught up in the same time dilations and what is happening with Earth and its solar system. It soon becomes a matter of life or death for them and the only possible solutions to their predicament lies in a distant galaxy they may have already visited, but have no way of knowing for sure. They must now trek across the universe to the distant galaxy. What they find there was something neither of them ever expected. It takes them where no one has ever been before.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

A truly amazing futuristic time-travel science-fiction novel for science lovers and readers who crave new conceptual sciences. Time travel is shown in a manner like never seen before and will intrigue the reader’s sense of understanding, not only for the possible origins of our universe, but for its grand design. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Albert Abraham was born in the United States of America. He received an engineering Bachelor of Science degree in 1981 and went to work for an aerospace company soon after graduation. He has worked in the field of aerospace engineering ever since. Jack Jacobs and the Doomsday Time Machine is his first novel.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Blue Comet Books; Expanded edition (July 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097697441X
• ISBN-13: 978-0976974413
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,200,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars a great book for Sci-Fi purists, September 12, 2006

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This review is from: Jack Jacobs and the Doomsday Time Machine (Hardcover)

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.

Received book free of charge.