The novel The Day Time was
Hacked is available at the following bookstores in The Netherlands:
For US readers Amazon.com is the best place to buy the book (next day delivery). Bookstores in the US as well as in any other country can order
the book at Baker & Taylor. The eBook is available on Kindle ($9 US, $12.65 outside the US) and on Mobipocket (other readers like Sony will follow soon). The Day Time was Hacked is a genre blend of historical fiction, science thriller, religion
thriller, and—because part of it happens in the future some would say—science fiction. For an overview of related
novels, movies and games please have a look at this list at Amazon: future fiction.
These are comments of readers:
Sacramento Book Review (February
2010 Issue): "A book about a centuries-old religious secret being uncovered in modern times isn't new. A book about
time travel and the paradoxes that happen from it also isn't new. Combining the two, and not coming off like a cheap Da
Vinci Code clone is. The Day Time Was Hacked has all the elements of a mediocre thriller, but rises above it
to pull those disparate elements together. A death bed secret told by Mary Magdalene to a priest leads to the creation of
the Basilica of Sainte Madeleine in Vezelay, and the secret she had carried about Jesus is hidden within the architecture
of the church. But it takes a fourteen-year-old boy from Washington, DC and a 37 year-old monk working at Pope's summer palace
at Gandolfo to put those pieces together and outwit an agent from the future who is always one step ahead. By moving back
and forth in time, the story unfolds and re-unfolds as things that happened in the past, change, and things that happened
in the future change back again.
The story is tight and well crafted. The consistent changes in place, time, and alternate
history stay understandable and not unmanageable. The characters are well rounded with interesting personalities. There was
obviously a great deal of research done in The Day Time Was Hacked, from the history of the Church, Popes, the Vatican
to reasonably thought-out theories of time travel. And while the science fiction aspects of the story are instrumental to
it, this is still more a thriller than science fiction."
“You have created a
unique and ingenious plot and memorable characters that your readers will like. The mystery carries them from chapter to chapter
and they will not be able to set the book aside without finishing it.”
“Wow!
I just finished reading the entire manuscript. I have to confess that science fiction/fantasy are not my two favorite genres
for personal reading, but you have written a fine story! The last third of the book went quickly and completely captivated
me. Clearly, you know your subject matter and were able to put it to good use. The premises are believable and your characters
are well drawn out. Readers will care about them.”
“Compared
to the hundreds of manuscripts I’ve read or edited over the years, yours is among the top 20%...”
“You
write with authority on a complex of subjects from time travel to religion, computers, and science. In all, readers will learn
to trust your writing to deliver a well-rounded story.”
“This
story was a real mind-bender, which is usually the case when a story involves time travel. It was interesting to see the unfolding
of the theories of time travel as pertains to this particular story. It was a great help to encounter the various time-travel
paradoxes, as with the first paradox that says something like time travel to the past is limited to the point in the past
where a time machine has been invented. The story will give readers much to think about. Your particular invention of “think
waves” was very fascinating.”
“What
distinguishes this particular book from most other books is the way that uses science and the way it weaves science into the
fiction without becoming boring or burdening the story with superfluous information; story first, science only when it has
a function. The wish to be able to travel in time is as old as the world itself and seems to be a never dying subject. Its
consequences have been used many times in film and fiction but never on a scale grander than in this story.”
To start reading download the prologue, chapter
1 and 2 here or click on the blog archive of the Amazon author page for more background information:
