Borrowed Time, Jack Campbell
Borrowed Time, Jack Campbell
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Borrowed Time

Author: Jack Campbell

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/06/2016


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell takes listeners on an incredible journey through time in this collection of seven stories.

The centerpiece of Borrowed Time is "Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms." When you've traveled through time and are stuck in the body of your fifteen-year-old self, it isn't the best time to have some other time travelers looking to kill you. Especially when the person who's supposed to be keeping an eye out for the bad guys is stuck in his own fifteen-year-old body.

In four interlinked short stories, temporal interventionists Tom and Pam meet cute, then work together to solve some of history's greatest mysteries. And in "Joan," Kate is a time-traveling researcher who's gotten a little too close to Joan of Arc both in time and emotionally. With no distance, scientific or otherwise, what will happen when she has a chance to rescue Joan from being burnt at the stake?

Our journey through time concludes with "Crow's Feat," when a skeptical writer goes back to Elizabethan England to discover the true author of Shakespeare's plays.

About Jack Campbell

Jack Campbell is the pen name for John G. Hemry, a retired naval officer. John graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before serving with the surface fleet and in a variety of other assignments. He is the author of the Lost Fleet and the Lost Stars series, as well as the Stark's War series and the Paul Sinclair series. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog magazine. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on August 31, 2020

Time travel stories, mostly interconnected, with only one real stinker in the bunch - oddly enough, the one the main blurb describers as the 'centerpiece'.......more

Goodreads review by Cloak88 on July 01, 2020

Awesome time-travel short stories. This is a collection of seven short stories about time-travel. But this time it's the fun, action-adventure type of time-travel that is the type that gets the limelight. Mr. Campbell has written a series of fun, upbeat stories with likable main characters. Especiall......more

Goodreads review by Dale (Aus) on February 25, 2013

Loved the book and theme of time travel. I hope you expand the TI characters further as the characters and settings were great and more of the same in the future would be a welcome read. The other stories were surprising and imaginative. The short quick stories were perfect for quick reads. Have the o......more

Goodreads review by Roy on June 02, 2023

There is something about the way that Jack Campbell writes that I like. It is simple and clear, so much so that I suspect it is not easy to do. He reminds me in this way of a few other writers like Richard Parks in his Japanese ghost stories about Yamada Monogatari. Parks writes about completely dif......more

Goodreads review by Boulder on November 06, 2023

Four very enjoyable stories about "Temporal Interventionists", one very bad story about Joan of Arc, an indifferent but interesting Shakespeare story and a decent story about eco-reformers. All a little undeveloped, as you might expect from a short story, but I'd quite like to read more stories in t......more