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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
About the author
Cliff Ball
67 books101 followersI'm a Christian first and foremost. I'm from Arizona and currently live in Phoenix. 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.
Standalone novels/short stories:
Out of Time - time travel novel
Don't Mess With Earth - alt history
Dust Storm - western short story
Voyager and the Aliens - scifi short story
The Long Journey - Christian fiction
Second Chances - Christian fiction
New Frontier Series - alt history
New Frontier
Final Frontier
The End Times Saga - Christian Fiction
Times of Turmoil
Times of Trouble
Times of Trial
Times of Rebellion
Times of Destruction
Times of Judgment
Times of Tribulation
Times of Harvest
The Perilous Times Series - Christian Fiction
The Falling Away
The Great Deception
The Great Tribulation
The Library Saga Series - fantasy/ parody / satire / scifi
Guardians of Genre
The Plot Thickens
The Algorithmic Draft
The Unwritten Fallout
Cat-alyst Chronicles
Archivist's Paradox
The Cosmic Archive
The Annotated Identity
Books 9 & 10 - TBA
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.
Standalone novels/short stories:
Out of Time - time travel novel
Don't Mess With Earth - alt history
Dust Storm - western short story
Voyager and the Aliens - scifi short story
The Long Journey - Christian fiction
Second Chances - Christian fiction
New Frontier Series - alt history
New Frontier
Final Frontier
The End Times Saga - Christian Fiction
Times of Turmoil
Times of Trouble
Times of Trial
Times of Rebellion
Times of Destruction
Times of Judgment
Times of Tribulation
Times of Harvest
The Perilous Times Series - Christian Fiction
The Falling Away
The Great Deception
The Great Tribulation
The Library Saga Series - fantasy/ parody / satire / scifi
Guardians of Genre
The Plot Thickens
The Algorithmic Draft
The Unwritten Fallout
Cat-alyst Chronicles
Archivist's Paradox
The Cosmic Archive
The Annotated Identity
Books 9 & 10 - TBA
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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