Tiem Mechine

by Alex Hansen

Kenny has just bought a time machine at a yard sale. After conducting some initial tests to verify that he actually purchased the ability to travel through time for just two dollars, he sets out to fix his past and prevent himself from becoming a single, recently unemployed loser. But upon arriving on his eighteenth birthday, he meets another time-traveling version of himself. And another...and then another. Some of his clones seem to have less than admirable ambitions, but there are so many of him running around that Kenny can't keep track of who is who and, more importantly, which of his selves he can trust. This wacky and increasingly confusing adventure involves an alien marketing consultant, our hero's foulmouthed but loyal roommate Travis, and a whole lot of Kennies all struggling to use the past to build themselves a better future.

Genres: Time Travel

140 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 19, 2014

About the author

Alex Hansen is a part-time writer from Pennsylvania who specializes in interpretive rewrites of elementary school science textbooks.

Just kidding.

But he has written about demons, dystopias and drive-thrus, so maybe nothing is off-limits.

Reviews

[Marilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have given this book a solid 4 star rating except for the really vulgar foul language that unfortunately got worse as the book went on.
I really liked the humor and the story and the cleverness of the writing. It could have used a little more proof reading as there were some errors. I am pretty sure the plural of Kenny is Kennys not Kennies. It is a person's name, not a thing.
The moral of the story was nice and I am glad our central character grew up so to speak. It was a fun read but I did almost abandon it due to the all too frequent foul language.

[Robin Houghton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderfully light and easy read, with tongue twistingly tortuously tangled timeline interactions of Kenny and his other selves. I chuckled and laughed my way through this. A great time travel story with life lesson(s) included. Alliteration abounds as Kenny tries to fix the present/future by going back and changing his 18 year old selves' ideas and actions, with comical and slapstick results, as his friend Travis simultaneously tries to wise him up to the unsoundness of his intentions as he himself is reluctantly dragged by Kenny into the eventual mayhem that ensues.

[Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very entertaining time-travel story, the characters are full of self-irony, the plot is well conceived, it's a fast pace reading and you really cannot put it down until you know how it ends.

I particularly liked the way the author used funny definitions to describe objects and situations all over the book.

[Talha Muftee · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Review of Grave Realization:
Happened to come across this randomly, if there's such a thing. A thrilling book that keeps you on the edge while not being too lengthy, the author manages to easily explore the consequences of time travel....in fact....too easily...as if he has/will/had-shalled traveled through time himself....