Imposter Messiah: A Tale of Time Travel, A Tiger, and the End of All Time.

by M.W. Davis

When a time agent lets his historically significant student get killed, Josh is the only agent that can take his place. This event is causing the universe to play fast and loose with physics, allowing the sins of the ONLE time agency to haunt them from the past. Will ONLE survive this attack? Can Josh figure out how resurrection works and get the girl? Will Raj find a curry that doesn't leave him running for the toilet? Join the adventures of Josh and the rest of the ONLE time agency to find out.

Genres: Science Fiction

282 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 8, 2019

About the author

M.W. Davis lives deep in the Ozarks with his wife, kids, a cat, and a wise old corgi named Fred.

When not writing complete nonsense, M.W. earns a living in the health care industry. He likes to view himself as a jack of all trades, a tinkerer of old, a renaissance man. More than likely he has an undiagnosed case of ADD. His hobbies include collecting hobbies. From woodworking, to board games, to cooking, to computer gaming, 3D printing, vinyl collecting, and restoring arcade cabinets, he is on a lifelong mission to catch them all. Except Pokémon, he never could get into Pokémon.

M.W. graduated college with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and an associate's degree in Network Administration. Hearkening back to his hobby collecting he was one class short for a minor in philosophy, sociology, and probably a couple others if he would have stopped to check. One degree that M.W. did not come close to minoring in was English. M.W. has what you could call a checkered past with the educational fundamentals of the language and those who attempted to instruct him on the proper use of words. M.W.'s favorite English professor once told him in front of the entire class something to the effect of, "You have great visuals and are one of the most descriptive writers I have read, but your grammar sucks."

Reviews

[Leah Szepesi · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a comedic satire on time travel and the farcification religion, this book is surprisingly positive and inoffensive. The biggest challenge the text faces its its pacing problems. The story progresses far too slowly only to pick up and gain momentum as an alarming rate near the end. Similarly, I was prepared to complain about the femme fatales in this book but she goes from dumb sex kitten to lead character by the end of the book. It could certainly use some smoothing and a good editor, but the humor and concept are enjoyable. The narrator's voice choices added to the camp factor and kept the book from every feeling uncomfortably irreligious as you never forgot you were in a satire!

[Cathie Stumpenhaus · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty good plot. Full of irreverent humor and likable characters even if many are stereotypical. Needs a good editing for grammar, verb tense, word choice, and punctuation. It spoils the flow for me when the author uses “setback in her chair” when it should have been “sat back in her chair”. Happy to have read this time travel novel; unlikely to read it again.

[Betty · Rating 3 out of 5]

If “Lamb” had a baby with “So you had to build a time machine,” it would be this book.

[Michael Rutar · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.8 stars. Fun read, full of satire, awesome story.

**Minor Spoilers**

As the title implies this book is about time travel. The concept of this book is extremely cool, and I am a sucker for time travel. Essential agents from the time travel company ONLY go back in time and assassinate certain people in order to keep a balance between life and chaos (usually major influencers or people of power).

When they go back in time it changes the timeline usually with minor outcomes. However, while one agent is in India (I think?) training Jesus to become... Jesus. Jesus is eaten by a tiger. This sends a code black through the timeline and causes major changes.

From here the story breaks off into basically to parts. 1) ONLY needs to send an agent back to become Jesus and fulfill his role in history. 2) The code black allows different groups of people from a different period in time to access points of the timeline not previously able to access.

The story is somewhat slow, but I think the humor between characters makes up for it. There is much religious satire (about all religions). The author does a pretty cool job of unfolding how the time travel works (through different equations, explaining physical forces involved, and the rules).

Definitely would recommend!