TimeLiners

Though it borders on cliché, time travel remains a common storyline. Yet from H.G. Wells to “Outlander,” no one has ever traveled like this.

TimeLiners is not science fiction. In lieu of the usual time travel clichés, debut author Emily Blaisdell asks what would happen if some “Timemaster,” an Elon Musk-ish Bad Boy genius, turned time travel into tourism. So it’s 2027. Your Time Jockeys liner is boarding. Where in the recent past are you headed? To a legendary concert? To kill Hitler (get in line.) To watch that first kiss with. . .

Running with this premise, Blaisdell spins a witty spoof of modern travel and technology. Movies on Meh-flix. Shopping on Stuffipile.com. Social media on Spewbox and Blather. And for three amazing years, a worldwide fleet of TimeLiners provides the ultimate escape from our own wacked out times. Until the Timemaster’s “small dlsruptions” begin to wreak havoc.

But mostly it was miracle and wonder, with little bags of pretzels for snacks. . .

— “One of my favorite summer reads.” — Writer’s Digest

-- "Although I've been dead since 1946, I bloody well loved TimeLiners. Brilliant!" -- H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine

— “A time-hopping dramedy that’s often fun and insightful. OUR VERDICT — GET IT!” — Kirkus Reviews

-- “The best — and wittiest — novel ever written about time travel.” — USA Yesterday