Adventures in Time and Space with Max..., Pat Murphy
Adventures in Time and Space with Max..., Pat Murphy
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Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell

Author: Pat Murphy

Narrator: Johanna Ward

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

Cruise into murder, mayhem, and alternate realities. Award-winning author Pat Murphy takes us aboard a luxury cruise ship and into the strange confluence of time and space known as the Bermuda Triangle.Susan Galina and her friend Pat are relaxing on a luxury cruise ship heading from New York to Europe via Bermuda. Trouble begins when one of the passengers, author Max Merriwell, receives a threatening note that appears to come from one of his own pseudonyms. Susan hears wolves howling, passengers are seized with a dancing mania, and monsters lurk in the corridors. An eyewitness reports a murder that seems not to have happened. While others struggle to understand these strange events, Pat seeks the explanation in quantum physics, in this suspenseful, funny, and fast-paced science fiction romp.

About Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy has won numerous awards for her science fiction and fantasy writing, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award. When not writing science fiction, she writes for the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and human perception. She lives in San Francisco.

About Johanna Ward

Johanna Ward (a.k.a. Kate Reading) is an Audie Award–winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others. She and her husband live in Hyattsville, Maryland, with their two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on January 16, 2011

A finely-crafted science-fiction adventure story about writing a science-fiction adventure story, in which a recently divorced librarian take a cross-Atlantic cruise and sheds her inner good girl, with some help from her best friend "Pat Murphy," a sci-fi writer named Max Merriwell, and the dreamt u......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on September 15, 2011

This was surprisingly enjoyable, despite the fact that I normally stay away from sci-fi. It sort of reminded me of the movie Inception with the whole "dream within a dream" thing. It's a lot to do with quantum psychics and the concepts are explained throughout the novel, refreshingly approachable an......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 03, 2016

Interesting concept, but a bit circular - though I guess it needs to be. I like the author's style.......more

Goodreads review by David on May 05, 2020

True Rating: 4.5/5 David enjoyed reading this book even more than I enjoyed writing this review I'm about to write. The review discussed the depth of the characters, from the heavily-backstoried protagonist to the well-described supporting characters, and the consistent geography of the setting - tha......more

Goodreads review by GwenPeds on November 16, 2022

Audiobook. Sadly pointless. I'm sure Murphy is getting at something -- the afterword makes it clear that she and many others put a whole lot of time and energy into. I just wasn't wowed. But, there was at least enough plot that I finished the whole thing.......more

Quotes

“[Reader] Johanna Ward performs well, deftly handling the mayhem…Her voice is pleasant and a very nice match to this material.” SFFAudio.com

“In this book obsessed with books, the questions of who is in charge, who is real and whether the answers to those questions matter will leave readers pleasantly dizzy.” Publishers Weekly

“Recalls the works of Lewis Carroll and the theories of quantum physics. Highly recommended for sf collections.” Library Journal

“Amusing...and well handled.” Kirkus

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