Timeliner

by Charles Eric Maine

Overview

TIMELINER!

The fascinating and provocative story of Hugh Macklin—an alien lost in endless futures—fighting desperately to return to his own era.

He had a good life in our time with a beautiful wife and a promising career. Then, without warning, in a fraction of a second, he was shot 80 years into the future. He was out ahead of everything he knew, excavating for uranium on the moon in another man’s body!

Here is a provocative story of tomorrow and of one man forced to fight through future eras to return to his own world and his own identity.

“Excellent!”—NEW YORK POST

“Fast paced...Entertaining...Thought-Provoking!”—DURHAM HERALD

“Time and the Future Adroitly Manipulated!”—NEWPORT NEWS

“Loaded With Excitement!”—SPRINGFIELD NEWS

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787203112
Publisher:	Hauraki Publishing
Publication date:	11/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David McIlwain (January 21, 1921 - November 30, 1981) better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s. He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade.

Maine was born in Liverpool, England. His writing career began with publishing three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940-1941, he published his own magazine, called Gargoyle. During World War II, he was in the Royal Air Force and served in Northern Africa in 1943.

After the war, he worked in TV engineering and became involved in editorial work for radio and TV. During 1952, he sold his first radio play, Spaceways, to the BBC. Due to its popularity, it became a novel as well as a movie.

One of his best-known novels, Timeliner, was about a scientist who experiments with a time machine, only to be maliciously thrust into the future by a fellow scientist who was having an affair with his wife. It was originally written as a radio play known as The Einstein Highway.

Maine died in 1981 in London, England at the age of 60.