Félix J. Palma

a novel

The map of time

Stef Hite

Really fascinating alternate history - a must read for HG Wells or science fiction fans.

Jessica Ford

I was prepared not to like this book at all. It was chosen for book club, and based on the book jacket description, I really had no interest in reading it. It took a while, because it is so long and descriptive, but I finally got through it and actually enjoyed it. The story was a bit confusing to follow, but in the end it tied up fairly nicely. I think the book jacket description is deceiving. The book was sort of about what it said, but not really. There are three intertwined stories that were actually quite funny in places. Toward the end I found myself skimming over the descriptive passages, but all in all it was a good book.

Tracey O’Rourke

I wanted very much to like this book, but I found it a bit of a slog. There are three distinct, but related, stories to this tale of time travel. The first I enjoyed, the second, I did not, and the third never grabbed my attention. I was relieved when the book actually ended earlier than I expected. ( HG Wells' The Time Machine was appended onto the end so the actual story ended 300 or so e-pages before the page count of the book.)

Devoted time travel readers might enjoy this, and it does a nice job with the complications inherent in time travel - but really no better than an episode of Dr. Who.

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is transformed from the work of one writer’s imagination into a terrifying reality for all mankind. 1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells’s popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to certain objects, apparently of extraterrestrial origin, that were discovered decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. On that same expedition was an American crew member named Edgar Allan Poe, whose inexplicable experiences in the frozen wasteland would ultimately inspire him to create one of his most enduring works of literature. When eerie, alien-looking cylinders begin appearing in London, Wells is certain it is all part of some elaborate hoax. But soon, to his great horror, he realizes that a true invasion of Earth has indeed begun. As brave bands of citizens converge on a crumbling London to defend it against utter ruin, Emma and her suitor must confront the enigma that is their love, a bright spark of hope even against the darkening light of apocalypse. Palma dazzled readers with his instant New York Times bestseller The Map of Time. In The Map of the Sky, he embarks on an even more thrilling speculative journey, one that links the earth and the heavens, the familiar and the bizarre, the impossible and the inevitable.

A Novel

The Map of the Sky

Kate Miller

When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells' War of the Worlds, three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue, replete with cameos by such figures as a young Edgar Allan Poe, Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.

Ariel Wolf 

The Hissing Saint

Destiny Martino

Alyssa Hart 

Kelsi Proulx

Steven O'Toole

Maribel González

Lea de Sousa

Andrea McGuffey

A conclusion to the trilogy that includes the award-winning The Map of Time andThe Map of the Sky finds its mysterious protagonist seeking an obscure magical book that will help him confess a dangerous secret to a lost loved one.

The map of time a novel

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