Tavern on the Edge
of Time
Author: Peter Durrach
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 366
Genre: Sci-fi
Format: Paperback
Book Summary:
During the year
2125, former asteroid miners Max Cody and Elaine Zhou never get a moment’s
rest. No sooner have they doused the flames of war between Earth and Mars or
returned from their first trip to the Tavern on the Edge of Time when they are
called upon to help fit out the fledging Martian colony orbiting Jupiter’s moon
Callisto. In parallel, Earth extradites the war’s fomenter, ex-billionaire arms
merchant Xanthus Rex, hoping to gain from his insights into Martian
teleportation technology, but he manages to turn Earth’s resources toward
private revenge against Max, Mars, and the Callisto Colony. In the meantime
aliens are leaking into the Earth-Mars continuum from the Tavern, whose
proprietor repaired and upgraded Max after accidentally injuring him during an
asteroid mining expedition. Max’s enhancements help, of course, but when strange
beings with the power to animate matter—the Assemblers—find their way to Earth,
Max, Mars, and humanity are sorely beset. Worse yet, the Tavern itself is
becoming unstable, its acquisitive host having overstretched his considerable
powers. His prospecting for collapsed neutron matter has also opened portals
between continua, inadvertently adding still more aliens to the mix. That’s
when the Assemblers’ overlord arrives and Max finally meets his match. Oh, and
Elaine is expecting their hybrid baby. Yes, you might say these are difficult
times at the Tavern on the Edge of Time.
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