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Nancy Kress · David Brin

Oct 2024 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Teens from across time are pulled into the twenty-fourth century for an interstellar rescue mission in this action-packed science fiction series debut.

Life is easier in the year 2345, since humanity has created a utopia with no more war, disease, or crime. Only now, Earth is in a dire situation, one which the adults are powerless to help. A group of teenagers step up to the challenge, but they’ll need help. . . . Enter Operation Hourglass . . .

A team of heroes—champions of their times, spanning history—is assembled, each of them known to have the skills, grit, and instincts to handle crisis. From the twentieth and twenty-first-centuries: a high-school basketball star and a smalltown brainiac. Joining them: a tenth-century Viking and a young thief from nineteenth-century London. Together they must rescue a human star settlement from mysterious, threatening, three-eyed aliens.

But even if they survive and successfully complete their mission, there’s still the matter of returning everyone back to their pasts . . .

About the author

Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-five novels, four story collections, and three books on fiction writing. Her work has won numerous awards including six Nebulas and two Hugos, and her works have been translated into dozens of languages. Her most recent novel, Observer, co-written with Dr. Robert Lanza, concerns the nature of consciousness, reality, and love. She lives in Seattle with her husband, fellow writer Jack Skillingstead.

David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.