Meridian - A Novel In Time (The Meridian Series Book 1)

Meridian - A Novel In Time (The Meridian Series Book 1)

ForeWord Magazine's<br />"Book of the Year"<br />2002 Silver Medal Winner<br />- Science Fiction -<br /><br /><br /><b>The Meridian Series</b><br />is a now set of five linked volumes comprising a quintet of extraordinary<br />novels in the popular time travel genre.<span><br /></span>It is the story of the first ever attempt to travel in time on a rainy<br />Memorial Day weekend set in the very near future. The project team has acquired<br />the recently demolished site of the venerable Bevatron complex at Lawrence<br />Berkeley Labs, and quietly built their "Arch Complex" to test new physics<br />principles in Quantum Mechanics that allow for time travel.<br /><br /><br />The four main characters in the novels each have a unique a discipline<br />and contribution to make to the effort. Team leader Paul Dorland is the<br />Physicist who developed the theory behind the Arch facility. Dorland is a<br />dreamer as he tinkers with infinity, his mind ever on the physics, and he often<br />serves to explain elements of the intricate time theory for the reader in a<br />straightforward and believable way. He is ably assisted by computer and math<br />wizard Kelly Ramer, a down to earth and sometimes comical character who finds<br />himself in severe jeopardy due to the annihilating effects of Paradox any<br />number of <span> </span>times in the series because<br />his death was prevented as a means of enabling this first mission to happen. The<br />mission research is the province of Chief Historian Robert Nordhausen, an<br />esoteric, eclectic, overly curious professor who often spars with, and is held<br />in check by, the analysis of Outcomes & Consequences led by the feisty and<br />determined Maeve Lindford. <br /><br /><br />The opening volume, Meridian, <span> </span>deals with the <span> </span>"Palma Event," a willful act carried out by<br />radicalized Islamic terrorists, the opening salvo in the ongoing Time War. This<br />opening volume finds the last member of the project team arriving late with the<br />news of a catastrophic event on the Island of Palma. The Cumbre Vieja volcano<br />has collapsed, and upon learning that this was a willful event caused by the<br />detonation of an atomic "suitcase bomb" the team cancels its appointment with<br />Shakespeare and sets out to find some way to prevent the event from happening.<br />If they fail, the whole eastern seaboard of the United States will be<br />devastated by the massive tsunami generated by the "Palma Event." They have 6<br />to 8 hours to research and plan their mission before the first wave sets come<br />crashing ashore, and the research leads them to the Jordanian desert during WWI<br />and the fabled adventurer Lawrence of Arabia.<br /><br /><br />Meridian is an intelligent, compelling, fast paced story that is impossible to put down.