Time Craft

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Mark Ely's Time Craft is an excellent story of adventure and scientific imagination. Although the story does resemble the Back to the Future series, it differs by portraying seemingly realistic scientific technology available for future time travel. It remains engaging despite the familiarity.

The story focuses on Jill, a brilliant physicist whose life's work is centered on finding her parents, whose footsteps she follows, time travel experiments goes awry, causing them to become lost in time. When there is a government project that is under suspicion of sabotage, Jenny realizes how this may not be coincidence.

A great book and a nice change in storyline as the main characters are strong and intelligent women in a field that is usually dominated by men.
4/5

Ten year old Jill Davies, a child genius, watches horrified as a time portal took her parents back to the year 1490, before exploding. She spends the next twenty years of her life, building a new machine so she could retrieve her folks. Unknown to her, the man who was responsible for her parents' disappearance, is plotting against her, ensuring that her journey back in time is full of danger.

This entertaining book chronicles the building of the time machine, but Jill's ultimate family reunion is not exactly what she expected. The book ends leaving the reader wanting more as the time craft fails to function properly on the return trip.

Mark A. Ely's `Time Craft' grabs you from the first page where you are introduced to a greedy manipulator and the man who is to become his pawn, Reiter and Ashmore. You don't quite know what is going on between the two at first, but you know that something is up. `Time Craft' is the type of book that you don't want to put down. Don't let the cover sway you away, the prose inside the book is magnificent and brilliant.

On its surface, `Time Craft' is a story about time travel, but below that it is also about redemption, greed, power, family and the future. Though, the main characters in the book, Wallace, Miranda, Jill, Jess, and Simon are involved in going into the past, the book is about more than just finding people lost in the continuum of time. It is more a story of creating a better future than anything else, and readers not educated as to time travel, physics or science are not at a deficient reading this book.

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