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New Frontier #1-2
Beyond the New Frontier
In this combination of the novels New Frontier and Final Frontier, this is the story of alternate timelines, partial political thriller, and time travel, in which President Kennedy is kept from being assassinated, but there are other unintended consequences as a result.
In 1976, Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States, declares the U.S. will plant a base on the moon by 1980 and a base on Mars by 1989. The Iranian Hostage Crisis occurs, but Reagan issues a stronger response by rescuing the hostages within two weeks of it happening. As a result, Osama bin Laden rises to power earlier than he normally would have in the prime timeline. Meanwhile, The Soviet Union decides to build a starship that will travel to the stars because they want to one-up the United States. The ship launches, but soon becomes lost, while the Soviets pretend it isn't.
In the early 1990's the U.S. and the Russians join forces to find the Soviet starship, which leads the joint venture to the other side of the galaxy by means of a wormhole. When they attempt to return to Earth, they find themselves in the past, where they try to fix certain events in the past while they wait to re-route the Soviet starship and for history in general to catch up to where they launched the joint mission to begin with.
Things go wrong as events do not play out as planned and numerous cases of unintended consequences result from the multiple attempts at fixing the timeline.
In 1976, Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States, declares the U.S. will plant a base on the moon by 1980 and a base on Mars by 1989. The Iranian Hostage Crisis occurs, but Reagan issues a stronger response by rescuing the hostages within two weeks of it happening. As a result, Osama bin Laden rises to power earlier than he normally would have in the prime timeline. Meanwhile, The Soviet Union decides to build a starship that will travel to the stars because they want to one-up the United States. The ship launches, but soon becomes lost, while the Soviets pretend it isn't.
In the early 1990's the U.S. and the Russians join forces to find the Soviet starship, which leads the joint venture to the other side of the galaxy by means of a wormhole. When they attempt to return to Earth, they find themselves in the past, where they try to fix certain events in the past while they wait to re-route the Soviet starship and for history in general to catch up to where they launched the joint mission to begin with.
Things go wrong as events do not play out as planned and numerous cases of unintended consequences result from the multiple attempts at fixing the timeline.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 8, 2012
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About the author
Cliff Ball
62 books99 followersI'm a Christian first and foremost. I live in Fort Worth, TX, but from Arizona and looking to move back to Mesa. I have a BA and Technical Writing Certificate from University of North Texas. I won 3rd in a short story contest for a magazine through my high school Creative Writing class. I've been independently published since 2008.
I'm a fan of a bunch of different genres, which is why a lot of my novels are different genres. From time travel to alternate history to lite sci-fi to Christian end times/political thrillers.
As a reader, I loathe novels with tons of minutiae where the author describes everything down to practically its atomic structure, so I write fast-paced novels and I try not to get bogged down in unimportant details that go on and on and on for page after page.....
Returned to writing after almost 10 years away.
In order of original publication:
Out of Time - 2008
Don't Mess With Earth - 2009
The Usurper - 2010
Shattered Earth - 2010
Voyager and the Aliens - 2011
Dust Storm - 2011
New Frontier - 2011
Times of Trouble - 2012
Times of Trial - 2012
Final Frontier - 2012 (sequel to New Frontier)
Beyond the New Frontier - combined novel
Times of Turmoil - 2013
Jon Ryan - 2013
Xavier Doolittle - 2013
Times of Rebellion - 2013
Times of Destruction - 2014
Times of Judgment - 2014
Times of Tribulation - 2014
The Long Journey - 2015
The Falling Away - 2015
The Great Deception - 2016
The Great Tribulation - 2016
Guardians of Genre - 2025
The Plot Thickens - 2025
The Algorithmic Draft - 2025
The Unwritten Fallout - 2025
Books 5 - 10 - 2025, 2026
http://cliffball.net
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cliff_ball_1
http://www.facebook.com/cliff.ball.au...
I'm a fan of a bunch of different genres, which is why a lot of my novels are different genres. From time travel to alternate history to lite sci-fi to Christian end times/political thrillers.
As a reader, I loathe novels with tons of minutiae where the author describes everything down to practically its atomic structure, so I write fast-paced novels and I try not to get bogged down in unimportant details that go on and on and on for page after page.....
Returned to writing after almost 10 years away.
In order of original publication:
Out of Time - 2008
Don't Mess With Earth - 2009
The Usurper - 2010
Shattered Earth - 2010
Voyager and the Aliens - 2011
Dust Storm - 2011
New Frontier - 2011
Times of Trouble - 2012
Times of Trial - 2012
Final Frontier - 2012 (sequel to New Frontier)
Beyond the New Frontier - combined novel
Times of Turmoil - 2013
Jon Ryan - 2013
Xavier Doolittle - 2013
Times of Rebellion - 2013
Times of Destruction - 2014
Times of Judgment - 2014
Times of Tribulation - 2014
The Long Journey - 2015
The Falling Away - 2015
The Great Deception - 2016
The Great Tribulation - 2016
Guardians of Genre - 2025
The Plot Thickens - 2025
The Algorithmic Draft - 2025
The Unwritten Fallout - 2025
Books 5 - 10 - 2025, 2026
http://cliffball.net
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cliff_ball_1
http://www.facebook.com/cliff.ball.au...
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February 19, 2013
An interesting time travel story that starts out stronger than it finishes.
Be forewarned: it is filled with cheesy dialogue and typos. Typically, I'm not one usually bothered by such typos. Goodreaders mentioning them in reviews of other books have left me bewildered as I don't believe anyone is perfect and some things slip through in books that are hundreds of pages long. I can understand how these things happen. However, for the first time ever, I found the prevalence of these errors overwhelming and was embarrassed for the author.
Still if you like time travel, and politics (e.g. what if Kennedy had not been assassinated and Congress was wiped out in one fell swoop) the intersection of these two topics are interestingly dealt with in this book, making it an "ok" read.
Be forewarned: it is filled with cheesy dialogue and typos. Typically, I'm not one usually bothered by such typos. Goodreaders mentioning them in reviews of other books have left me bewildered as I don't believe anyone is perfect and some things slip through in books that are hundreds of pages long. I can understand how these things happen. However, for the first time ever, I found the prevalence of these errors overwhelming and was embarrassed for the author.
Still if you like time travel, and politics (e.g. what if Kennedy had not been assassinated and Congress was wiped out in one fell swoop) the intersection of these two topics are interestingly dealt with in this book, making it an "ok" read.
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May 20, 2015
I enjoyed it! It took quite awhile to finish reading it But I have finished reading to tonight. It was kind of a slow moving quite of story for the most part.
But at times I felt like I was there myself with these characters. It does have a way of getting the reader hooked so that one cannot help but
feel like they just need to finish so they can know how it all turns out for the good. I recommend this ebook for those who enjoy reading about perhaps living out in space and political issues
as well as time travel. It's a long ebook but a very good one and a very clean reads christian ebook. So, for all these reasons I have
mentioned these are my reasons for giving this ebook five stars! I received this ebook for free and in exchange for being able to read it, I
have given it an honest review. Super job Cliff! By Angela
But at times I felt like I was there myself with these characters. It does have a way of getting the reader hooked so that one cannot help but
feel like they just need to finish so they can know how it all turns out for the good. I recommend this ebook for those who enjoy reading about perhaps living out in space and political issues
as well as time travel. It's a long ebook but a very good one and a very clean reads christian ebook. So, for all these reasons I have
mentioned these are my reasons for giving this ebook five stars! I received this ebook for free and in exchange for being able to read it, I
have given it an honest review. Super job Cliff! By Angela
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