A Rip Through Time: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device

by Chris Holm

Dr. Robert Berlin has created The Baryon Core, a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe. Berlin swipes his own creation from The Company and disappears into history. The Company's time-cop Simon Rip and the sexy, brilliant Dr. Serena Ludwig join together to track Berlin and return the device. Their pursuit will take them back to the ice age and forward to the end of time. A RIP THROUGH TIME follows the time-cop's travels in a series of five short stories and a bonus flash piece written by several of today's top pulp writers. Chris F. Holm opens the collection with the fast-paced "The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device." Charles A. Gramlich's "Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls" and Garnett Elliott's "Chaos in the Stream" breathe new life into the time travel story. Bringing the saga to a gripping climax in "Darkling in the Eternal Space" is Chad Eagleton, who then takes it a step further with a mesmerizing coda, "The Final Painting of Hawley Exton." And for all the time-traveling enthusiasts, Ron Scheer provides an insightful essay, "Are We Then Yet," which explores the mechanics of time travel in popular fiction.

Genres: Anthologies, Science Fiction

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2012

About the author

Chris Holm is the author of the cross-genre Collector trilogy, which recasts the battle between heaven and hell as old-fashioned crime pulp; the Michael Hendricks thrillers, which feature a hitman who only kills other hitmen; and the standalone scientific thriller, CHILD ZERO. He's also a former molecular biologist with a U.S. patent to his name. Chris’ work has been selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES, named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and won a number of awards, including the 2016 Anthony Award for Best Novel. He lives in Portland, Maine.

Reviews

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite a stylised adventure tale of Rip - the time agent - trying to foil some kind of big conspiracy through time. At least he thinks there's a conspiracy, nobody seems quite sure what's going on. There's a heck of a lot of jumping about through time, and some sections feel a little bit like they suffer from the cast of authors approach, which gets a bit confusing in the middle - and the ending feels quite sudden (obviously setting up the sequel to resolve all your outstanding questions). But, despite these, it's kinda fun for fans of hectic time-travel adventures (ala Doctor Who).

[Ricky Kimsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast Pace Adventure

This time travel adventure is one fast paced thrill ride through time and space. Fans of the popular BBC series Doctor Who may like this.