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Series: Timeshift Trilogy
Volume: 1
Genre: SF
ISBN: 1588514331
Pages: 211 pages
Publisher: AmErica House Book Publishers
Price: $19.95
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Timeshift by Phillip Ellis Jackson

Description: For all of man's hopes for a bountiful future, fueled by spectacular, almost-unimaginable leaps in technology, the world still reeled under the heavy threat of the killing ash.

Centuries earlier a world-wide thermonuclear war wreaked havoc on an already divided society segmented into two cooperative but separate nations, the East and West United States. With the conflagration came a rapidly-multiplying mysterious new life form, the deadly ash, that forced the surviving population beneath the earth's surface in a desperate attempt to stave off its lethal touch.

Turning to technology, man began a long, slow, fight for survival. Washington D.C., now 'The District', was the focal point of this effort, where the discovery of Beta Light had inspired the people with a new hope for a better life. Scientists discovered that after leaving the sun Alpha Light-the spectrum ranging from infrared to ultraviolet-split off and continued on into space while a new, hitherto unknown companion particle, Beta Light, was trapped in a sediment-like swirl by the earth's magnetic field.

Because of its unique properties, Beta Light acted like a recording film capturing the images of the past exactly as they happened-sights, sounds, everything just as it was. Man could view the past, but not interact with it. Still, it was enough to replay the 3-D holographic images they retrieved, allowing the people of the present to share in a life that once was, and might never again be.

With the wonders of this discovery came a glimmer of hope that they might uncover the true origin of the deadly and enigmatic ash and, ultimately, find a way to eliminate it.