The Beautiful Land
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- ¥1,300
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- ¥1,300
発行者による作品情報
Takahiro O’Leary has a very special job…
…working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig—until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world.
If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school—because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak’s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he “borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline.
But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it.
The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Averill's slight time-traveling love story won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award before being picked up by Ace. Averill centers his novel on Tak O'Leary, a Japanese-American explorer, former TV host, and would-be suicide, and his girlfriend, Sam, a war veteran suffering from terrible PTSD. The two are sympathetic and appealing characters in a one-dimensional way, caught up in a clumsy and meandering plot. Tak finds Sam; Tak loses Sam; Tak takes on an evil genius in a frantic effort to preserve reality and save Sam. Averill has some clever ideas such as neatly sidestepping the paradoxes inherent in time-travel stories but the narrative suffers from a paucity of characters and a lack of any real surprises. Still, Averill injects enough breeziness and lovers' angst to keep the reader lightly engaged.
