Wasting Time ... Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 2
Wasting Time, by Mike Murphey, is a darkly comic work of science fiction written with the audiences of Douglas Adams or Christopher Moore in mind. The book is the second of four in Murphey's Physics, Lust and Greed series.
When time travelers fail several tests to alter the past, most of the financial backers abandon the massive program, leaving veteran Traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling, and foil a parallel universe's murder plot. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend's death, while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow Traveler Marshall Grissom. Along the way, she acquires a mentor—the elderly founder of Cecil's Margin Service who resides on a sailboat in the Caribbean and waxes cats.
Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from emotional entanglements, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of a close friendship with Sheila Schuler, and a night of wild sex with Marshall Grissom. Now, Sheila is probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists' theory—Marshall soon will be. So as she undertakes her new role as administrator of the time travel program, she struggles to regain her emotional solitude. Despite her best intentions, though, her imaginary friend and sexual fantasy guide, the libidinous Dr. Dingus Doonaughty, keeps sending her back to Marshall.
As administrator, Marta is also thrust into the arena of bureaucracy and politics as the congressional subcommittee presiding over this secret program exercises more control. Congresswoman Libby Pinch questions the credibility of the program and is treated to a journey back in time. And the subcommittee chairman, Senator Josiah Mumford, is the target of a murder plot originating in a rogue parallel universe. Marta must do battle in that universe with a villain she and Marshall have already vanquished in their own world.
And finally, a mysterious being who presides over the eerie, timeless limbo that acts as the pathway between universes, offers Marshall hope that Sheila might have survived her journey to a distant past.
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When time travelers fail several tests to alter the past, most of the financial backers abandon the massive program, leaving veteran Traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling, and foil a parallel universe's murder plot. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend's death, while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow Traveler Marshall Grissom. Along the way, she acquires a mentor—the elderly founder of Cecil's Margin Service who resides on a sailboat in the Caribbean and waxes cats.
Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from emotional entanglements, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of a close friendship with Sheila Schuler, and a night of wild sex with Marshall Grissom. Now, Sheila is probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists' theory—Marshall soon will be. So as she undertakes her new role as administrator of the time travel program, she struggles to regain her emotional solitude. Despite her best intentions, though, her imaginary friend and sexual fantasy guide, the libidinous Dr. Dingus Doonaughty, keeps sending her back to Marshall.
As administrator, Marta is also thrust into the arena of bureaucracy and politics as the congressional subcommittee presiding over this secret program exercises more control. Congresswoman Libby Pinch questions the credibility of the program and is treated to a journey back in time. And the subcommittee chairman, Senator Josiah Mumford, is the target of a murder plot originating in a rogue parallel universe. Marta must do battle in that universe with a villain she and Marshall have already vanquished in their own world.
And finally, a mysterious being who presides over the eerie, timeless limbo that acts as the pathway between universes, offers Marshall hope that Sheila might have survived her journey to a distant past.
Wasting Time ... Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 2
Wasting Time, by Mike Murphey, is a darkly comic work of science fiction written with the audiences of Douglas Adams or Christopher Moore in mind. The book is the second of four in Murphey's Physics, Lust and Greed series.
When time travelers fail several tests to alter the past, most of the financial backers abandon the massive program, leaving veteran Traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling, and foil a parallel universe's murder plot. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend's death, while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow Traveler Marshall Grissom. Along the way, she acquires a mentor—the elderly founder of Cecil's Margin Service who resides on a sailboat in the Caribbean and waxes cats.
Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from emotional entanglements, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of a close friendship with Sheila Schuler, and a night of wild sex with Marshall Grissom. Now, Sheila is probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists' theory—Marshall soon will be. So as she undertakes her new role as administrator of the time travel program, she struggles to regain her emotional solitude. Despite her best intentions, though, her imaginary friend and sexual fantasy guide, the libidinous Dr. Dingus Doonaughty, keeps sending her back to Marshall.
As administrator, Marta is also thrust into the arena of bureaucracy and politics as the congressional subcommittee presiding over this secret program exercises more control. Congresswoman Libby Pinch questions the credibility of the program and is treated to a journey back in time. And the subcommittee chairman, Senator Josiah Mumford, is the target of a murder plot originating in a rogue parallel universe. Marta must do battle in that universe with a villain she and Marshall have already vanquished in their own world.
And finally, a mysterious being who presides over the eerie, timeless limbo that acts as the pathway between universes, offers Marshall hope that Sheila might have survived her journey to a distant past.
When time travelers fail several tests to alter the past, most of the financial backers abandon the massive program, leaving veteran Traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling, and foil a parallel universe's murder plot. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend's death, while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow Traveler Marshall Grissom. Along the way, she acquires a mentor—the elderly founder of Cecil's Margin Service who resides on a sailboat in the Caribbean and waxes cats.
Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from emotional entanglements, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of a close friendship with Sheila Schuler, and a night of wild sex with Marshall Grissom. Now, Sheila is probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists' theory—Marshall soon will be. So as she undertakes her new role as administrator of the time travel program, she struggles to regain her emotional solitude. Despite her best intentions, though, her imaginary friend and sexual fantasy guide, the libidinous Dr. Dingus Doonaughty, keeps sending her back to Marshall.
As administrator, Marta is also thrust into the arena of bureaucracy and politics as the congressional subcommittee presiding over this secret program exercises more control. Congresswoman Libby Pinch questions the credibility of the program and is treated to a journey back in time. And the subcommittee chairman, Senator Josiah Mumford, is the target of a murder plot originating in a rogue parallel universe. Marta must do battle in that universe with a villain she and Marshall have already vanquished in their own world.
And finally, a mysterious being who presides over the eerie, timeless limbo that acts as the pathway between universes, offers Marshall hope that Sheila might have survived her journey to a distant past.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798765587232 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 09/15/2020 |
| Series: | Physics, Lust and Greed |
| Pages: | 354 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d) |
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