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    Timecast
    Timecast
    Timecast
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    Timecast

    By James Hanback Jr, Jr

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    Haunted by guilt and loneliness after a car accident that left the love of his life indefinitely comatose, an aging high school physical science teacher schemes to restore his wife to health and vitality by using the advanced space-time theories of quantum physics to change history.

    Based in part on the speculations and published conjectures of theoretical physicists past and present, Timecast explores the nature of humanity, companionship, and the individual’s relationship to the universe through one man’s desperate need to set his life on a different path.

    An ornery lawn-mowing neighbor and a confused, but concerned, English teacher become the old man’s first experiment and sounding board as he struggles to regain that which he believes his own youthful foolishness robbed him of twenty years before.

    Can he set things right? Time will tell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwo Peas Publishing
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781938271045
    Timecast
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    James Hanback Jr, Jr

    James Hanback, Jr. is an IT professional, a technical writer, and the author of several works of short fiction. He lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife, her daughter, and a rescue dog. He loves the beach.

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      Timecast - James Hanback Jr, Jr

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COPYRIGHT

      PREFACE

      TIMECAST

      TIMECAST

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2007, 2012 by James R. Hanback, Jr.

      Design and art direction copyright 2012 by Paula Rozelle Hanback

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      This is a work of fiction. The names, places, characters, and events portrayed in this work are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is entirely coincidental.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TIMECAST

      a novelette by

      James Hanback, Jr.

      PREFACE

      I do not know, nor have I ever met, the great theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed his best-selling books, A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell. I found both works to be enlightening, entertaining, and required reading for anyone who has ever been curious about the nature of the universe and gravity beyond its effects on our crude corporeal bodies.

      The following story was inspired by the theories and conjectures of Stephen Hawking as well as my personal love for science fiction involving the prospect of time travel. It is not intended to be a factual treatise on time travel, the nature of the universe, the nature of gravity, or the nature of subatomic matter.

      As the old man in the following tale exclaims, Professor Hawking is a damn genius. Therefore, as the author, I feel it is important to point out that any misinterpretations of the nature of the universe or Hawking’s theories and conjectures that readers might find herein are wholly my fault.

      Finally, I would like to offer my thanks and love to my wife, Paula Rozelle Hanback, who constructed the design of this eBook edition of Timecast and who encourages me to keep writing.

      TIMECAST

      Hawking’s wrong, you know, he said. Then he sighed, as if resigned to it.

      My first thought was that I had drifted into my own world and missed some part of my conversation with the old man, my next-door neighbor and long-time friend. We sat on his porch steps, watching a Saturday afternoon pass over our heads and drinking him out of his modest stock of Corona Lights.

      Such days, I think, are intended for the mind to drift; for men to fish in their streams of consciousness, content to leave behind everyday cares and enjoy a little alcohol-enhanced whimsy. On days like these, it’s easy ― nothing, really ―

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