Description
Novelette — introduction to the Crucible series. Originally published in The Witness Paradox: A Time Traveler Anthology; later republished as a stand-alone novelette.
Read the full novelette in the READ EXCERPT link below.
Time travel? Strange you should ask me, of all people. Everyone is a time traveler, you know. Some of us seem to move along with time slower than others but passing time is something we all do. Yet, for some of us, the concept is an avocation and many have lost their lives to maintain time's proper path — one that will continue to create and maintain the world you live in.
This is a story that began a long time ago, continues today and is a tale in which my Grandmother will play a major role. This is not a story of time travel although the concept is crucial to it. It begins with a tragedy that is about to happen and must occur although most people will never hear of it. The existence of our species depends upon interstellar travel, alternate dimensions, and string theory so much so that eons ago we took on a continuing responsibility for the fate of our race as well as a species clade we call Dinosauria.
It all starts when the ISA Warship Mercon, traveling along the Jovian Equatorial Belt in the year 2061, encountered …