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Retrieving the Future
Stealing technology from parallel Earths was supposed to make Declan rich. Instead, it might destroy everything.
Declan is a self-proclaimed interdimensional interloper, travelling to parallel Earths to retrieve futuristic cutting edge technology for his employer. It's profitable work, and he doesn't ask questions.
But when he befriends an amazing humanoid robot, Lyle, on one of his parallel Earth trips and brings him home to create his idea of an ultimate AI, everything unravels!
Suddenly Declan's coworkers and company leaders want him dead, his girlfriend Rose is in danger, and the only way to survive is to discover what his missions were really about—a secret conspiracy linking corporate greed to some of Scripture's endtime prophecies.
Can Declan and his friends survive long enough to expose the truth, or will their missions across dimensions be the spark that ignites the end to human existence itself?
Declan is a self-proclaimed interdimensional interloper, travelling to parallel Earths to retrieve futuristic cutting edge technology for his employer. It's profitable work, and he doesn't ask questions.
But when he befriends an amazing humanoid robot, Lyle, on one of his parallel Earth trips and brings him home to create his idea of an ultimate AI, everything unravels!
Suddenly Declan's coworkers and company leaders want him dead, his girlfriend Rose is in danger, and the only way to survive is to discover what his missions were really about—a secret conspiracy linking corporate greed to some of Scripture's endtime prophecies.
Can Declan and his friends survive long enough to expose the truth, or will their missions across dimensions be the spark that ignites the end to human existence itself?
314 pages, Paperback
Published December 15, 2025
About the author
Randy C. Dockens
23 books32 followersI grew up in the south, but have lived north of the Mason-Dixon line for many years now. It seems funny now, but growing up I was told I talked like a Yankee, but after moving north, I am told I talk like a Southerner. Go figure! Science has always been an interest of mine, as well as the Bible, and both have shaped my perspective on just about everything. Yet, I think I have always had a creative side, too. It's just taken longer for it to surface through all the science, I guess.
I have a doctorate in both pharmacokinetics (mathematical description of drug concentratons in the body) and in Biblical prophecy. I want people to understand that both science and faith can exist together, and, in fact, go hand in hand. I believe our future will be a positive one and be scientifically advanced where technology itself will become a way one can offer up worship. I like for my books to be both fun to read and have a strong scientific bent to them. I, with my wife and kids, live outside Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
I have a doctorate in both pharmacokinetics (mathematical description of drug concentratons in the body) and in Biblical prophecy. I want people to understand that both science and faith can exist together, and, in fact, go hand in hand. I believe our future will be a positive one and be scientifically advanced where technology itself will become a way one can offer up worship. I like for my books to be both fun to read and have a strong scientific bent to them. I, with my wife and kids, live outside Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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January 9, 2026
Retrieving the Future by Randy C. Dockens is a high-stakes sci-fi thriller where Declan, an interdimensional tech thief, uncovers a conspiracy linking corporate greed to biblical end-time prophecies. When a humanoid robot named Lyle enters the mix, Declan must navigate deadly betrayals, protect his loved ones, and survive across parallel Earths—or risk triggering humanity’s ultimate destruction.
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