The Time Travel Journals: A novel about Thomas Andrews, the Builder of the Titanic
Semifinalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest
Imagine being there before the Titanic set sail. Now imagine being there before she's even built.
Sam
Altair is a physicist living in Belfast, Ireland. He has spent his
career researching time travel and now, in early 2006, he's finally
reached the point where he can send objects backwards through time. The
only problem is, he doesn't know where the objects go. They don't show
up in the past, and no one notices any changes to the present. Are they
creating alternate time lines?
To collect more data, Sam tries a
clandestine experiment in a public park, late at night. But the
experiment goes horribly wrong when Casey Wilson, a student at the
university, stumbles into his isolation field. Sam tries to rescue her,
but instead, he and Casey are transported back to the year 1906. Stuck
in the past, cut off from everyone and everything they know, Sam and
Casey work together to help each other survive. Then Casey meets Thomas
Andrews, the man who will shortly begin to build the most famous ship
since Noah's Ark. Should they warn him, changing the past and creating
unknown consequences for the future? Or should they let him die?
The
construction of White Star Line's Olympic-class ships forms the
backdrop for a passionate love affair between Tom and Casey, who must
overcome the many differences inherent between an Edwardian Irish
gentleman, and a member of America's Generation Y. The fictional love
affair grows alongside real lives from history: the Andrews family of
Comber, Lord William Pirrie, Bruce Ismay, and the thousands of skilled
men who built the remarkable ocean liners of the early twentieth
century.