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Earth's New Timeline #1
Earth's Eulogy
The book has now been edited.
In July 2057, all life on Earth was wiped out by thousands of meteor strikes. Two men survived because they happened to be in the seed vault on Svalbard Island. An alien from a civilization far more advanced than our own sends them back in time to AD 70 with all the supplies that could be found in the seed vault. Will they be able to change the timeline enough that humanity can survive the extinction event of 2057?
Please note this story does not whitewash history. The Empires of AD 70 did things that would be called ruthless by our times. Things that we would consider war crimes were considered honorable. Superstitions that would horrify us today were commonly practiced. Things like child marriage were not just practiced, but for much of the world was expected. If these things bother you, then you know how the main characters in this story will feel.
In July 2057, all life on Earth was wiped out by thousands of meteor strikes. Two men survived because they happened to be in the seed vault on Svalbard Island. An alien from a civilization far more advanced than our own sends them back in time to AD 70 with all the supplies that could be found in the seed vault. Will they be able to change the timeline enough that humanity can survive the extinction event of 2057?
Please note this story does not whitewash history. The Empires of AD 70 did things that would be called ruthless by our times. Things that we would consider war crimes were considered honorable. Superstitions that would horrify us today were commonly practiced. Things like child marriage were not just practiced, but for much of the world was expected. If these things bother you, then you know how the main characters in this story will feel.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2020
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November 16, 2022
many things are glossed over,he should have used time jumps more
December 2, 2022
DNF it just didn't catch me.
August 28, 2021
Finally a great kingdom building story! May have spoilers.
This story is driven by its flawed two main characters. First thing that I will say that make this story great is that the author wrote from the point of view of two modern day Americans. What I mean by that is the author wrote the story based on what he knows. I am talking about culture and traditions. The main characters are both white, however that does not make them better than the natives. What make them better then the natives at this time are they knowledge and experience. That being said we see that the natives are changing the main characters just as much as they are changing them. In Paul we see how living in the death trap that is Africa is turning him into a monster. What many will have against Paul would be what he is during to the witch doctors, but please remember that he is from the 21 century America. The practice of the witch doctors are evil in his eyes and I know they are not the worst group of people are this period of time. I mean if you want to talk about evil than look the Rome empire and what they do at around this period. That being said this is the first book, and we don't know when they will make contact with the other nations in africa and Erythrean sea. So as I was saying Paul is acting base on emotions as well as logic. The witch doctors are dangerous to any one that want to rule Africa because they hold not only spiritual power over the people but they are great at poisoning people. Most their teaching would not work well with how Paul wanted to brain wash his young people. Now that we have talk about what I like, one thing that stick out are some typos like when John called wild dogs wolves. Their are others I found, but not enough that you can't enjoy the story.
This story is driven by its flawed two main characters. First thing that I will say that make this story great is that the author wrote from the point of view of two modern day Americans. What I mean by that is the author wrote the story based on what he knows. I am talking about culture and traditions. The main characters are both white, however that does not make them better than the natives. What make them better then the natives at this time are they knowledge and experience. That being said we see that the natives are changing the main characters just as much as they are changing them. In Paul we see how living in the death trap that is Africa is turning him into a monster. What many will have against Paul would be what he is during to the witch doctors, but please remember that he is from the 21 century America. The practice of the witch doctors are evil in his eyes and I know they are not the worst group of people are this period of time. I mean if you want to talk about evil than look the Rome empire and what they do at around this period. That being said this is the first book, and we don't know when they will make contact with the other nations in africa and Erythrean sea. So as I was saying Paul is acting base on emotions as well as logic. The witch doctors are dangerous to any one that want to rule Africa because they hold not only spiritual power over the people but they are great at poisoning people. Most their teaching would not work well with how Paul wanted to brain wash his young people. Now that we have talk about what I like, one thing that stick out are some typos like when John called wild dogs wolves. Their are others I found, but not enough that you can't enjoy the story.
August 20, 2025
This first book in the "Earth's New Timeline" series is probably the weakest of the whole series. It does a fine job setting the stage from everything that follows but it misses a lot of opportunities to explore the inevitable struggles of starting from scratch, alone, with nothing more than what each of the main characters could hold in their arms.
That being said, if you at all enjoyed this book stick with the series as the future books improve the pacing and go into lots of interesting detail about how the ancient world worked, what the different cultures believed and how hard it is to rebuild "modern" technology even with a small country helping if you only remember a few details about how everything is made.
Overall I would give the series 5 stars.
That being said, if you at all enjoyed this book stick with the series as the future books improve the pacing and go into lots of interesting detail about how the ancient world worked, what the different cultures believed and how hard it is to rebuild "modern" technology even with a small country helping if you only remember a few details about how everything is made.
Overall I would give the series 5 stars.
July 12, 2020
a very good time travel story
I don't give five stars much, but one person 1 star review really needed to be corrected. so I add an extra star to my review. it's a very good story, I'm a sucker for time travel. However majestic series by Geoff Wolak, or Forget the Alamo series I think are a tab better. Plus both are Kindle Unlimited. Rolando Mountain by PC Allen is another series that I like better, but just think that 1 star is way off. I hope the author writers quickly because it has a cliffhanger ending. another reason not a true 5 star.
I don't give five stars much, but one person 1 star review really needed to be corrected. so I add an extra star to my review. it's a very good story, I'm a sucker for time travel. However majestic series by Geoff Wolak, or Forget the Alamo series I think are a tab better. Plus both are Kindle Unlimited. Rolando Mountain by PC Allen is another series that I like better, but just think that 1 star is way off. I hope the author writers quickly because it has a cliffhanger ending. another reason not a true 5 star.
September 20, 2022
This is the first of 5 outstanding stories with more to come. I don't review later books in a series. I figure if you're still reading after the first book why bother? I noticed that Earth's Eulogy didn't rate as high as I thought it should. I can think of a couple of reasons why which I will go into later.
This book and the others in the series deserve 5 stars for these reasons.
First, the author does a remarkable job in historical accuracy. The only mistake I've seen was having potatoes in Northern Mexico 500 years too early. The rest of setting the cultures and conditions make the settings excellent.
The author also does an excellent job with his characterization. The good guys have flaws, and the bad guys have brains and believable motivations.
The prose is easy to read and the action scenes are realistic.
As stated in the blurb, two guys are sent back to the first century AD to save earth. As you continue their stories you will probably second guess each approach. I'm anxious to see how the author thinks it will turn out.
Now as to why some may not have given this book as high a rating as I think it earned. A couple of factors might play into those rating. First, editing by spell check is iffy at best. Years ago in a workshop on how to evaluate creative writing judging the story if paramount, spelling and grammar should only play into the final evaluation if it was so bad it distracted from the writing. (Spellcheck editing aside I wonder if the author knows the difference between there, they're and their or your and you're. That shouldn't depend on Spellcheck.)
A second reason might be the author's rather graphic violence. Not "nice" but realistic.
Can't think of anything else that would put off readers. Maybe super advanced aliens padding their overtime, but that was an extremely minor part of the whole.
All in all looking forward the the next in the series - the first 5 have been great.
This book and the others in the series deserve 5 stars for these reasons.
First, the author does a remarkable job in historical accuracy. The only mistake I've seen was having potatoes in Northern Mexico 500 years too early. The rest of setting the cultures and conditions make the settings excellent.
The author also does an excellent job with his characterization. The good guys have flaws, and the bad guys have brains and believable motivations.
The prose is easy to read and the action scenes are realistic.
As stated in the blurb, two guys are sent back to the first century AD to save earth. As you continue their stories you will probably second guess each approach. I'm anxious to see how the author thinks it will turn out.
Now as to why some may not have given this book as high a rating as I think it earned. A couple of factors might play into those rating. First, editing by spell check is iffy at best. Years ago in a workshop on how to evaluate creative writing judging the story if paramount, spelling and grammar should only play into the final evaluation if it was so bad it distracted from the writing. (Spellcheck editing aside I wonder if the author knows the difference between there, they're and their or your and you're. That shouldn't depend on Spellcheck.)
A second reason might be the author's rather graphic violence. Not "nice" but realistic.
Can't think of anything else that would put off readers. Maybe super advanced aliens padding their overtime, but that was an extremely minor part of the whole.
All in all looking forward the the next in the series - the first 5 have been great.
May 31, 2023
Alternative history
The whole terrestrial ecosphere is destroyed by a careless and indifferent alien, and the only two surviving humans are sent back in time a couple thousand years, to see if they can change this outcome.
The two try to uplift the societies they end up with.
It's annoying that the author, in several instances, uses 's for the plural (ex "the 12 year old's"). Otherwise it's an interesting story, clean language, some action.
The whole terrestrial ecosphere is destroyed by a careless and indifferent alien, and the only two surviving humans are sent back in time a couple thousand years, to see if they can change this outcome.
The two try to uplift the societies they end up with.
It's annoying that the author, in several instances, uses 's for the plural (ex "the 12 year old's"). Otherwise it's an interesting story, clean language, some action.
October 21, 2020
Interesting story and engaging. Terrible editing.
I found the concept to be interesting and fun. The timelines involved are ambitious, but probably needed to advance the story. The editing was atrocious, with frequent grammatical and other errors that definitely should have been caught before publication. Overall, I felt engaged, but not thrilled.
I found the concept to be interesting and fun. The timelines involved are ambitious, but probably needed to advance the story. The editing was atrocious, with frequent grammatical and other errors that definitely should have been caught before publication. Overall, I felt engaged, but not thrilled.
January 1, 2024
Loved it! very clever changing history plot
I am an artist and was not impressed with the "five minutes to make " cover for this well written story. looking at it small on a kindle it appears that potatoes from space are coming. Given the choice of the best time to go to impact earth's course the most iS an interesting start.
I am an artist and was not impressed with the "five minutes to make " cover for this well written story. looking at it small on a kindle it appears that potatoes from space are coming. Given the choice of the best time to go to impact earth's course the most iS an interesting start.
September 11, 2025
Good time travel adventure story with a science fiction bent. Character development was minimal except the protagonist. None of the characters rose up to a level to be considered an antagonists. The science was interesting enough to carry the story however, I would have preferred a little more agency from the peripheral characters. I may read the next book to see what happens.
October 8, 2020
Annoying
The story started by talking about how they couldn't go to far back in time because of religion and language and then they went where they couldn't understand the language and the where the the religion they believed was so crucial doesn't exist yet
The story started by talking about how they couldn't go to far back in time because of religion and language and then they went where they couldn't understand the language and the where the the religion they believed was so crucial doesn't exist yet
February 20, 2021
Look Lord of the Flies is unrealistic and never happened. When a group of kids were stranded in Real Life, 1950s, they did not go crazy and kill each
Had Sub-saharan Africa been this brutal and inhumane no one would be alive. This is more unrealistic than the Walking Dead
Had Sub-saharan Africa been this brutal and inhumane no one would be alive. This is more unrealistic than the Walking Dead
July 5, 2021
Rating 4.0 stars
This is a pretty interesting story. World is destroyed and only 2 people are left. The aliens looking after the world give the 2 people a chance to go back in time to try and prevent this from happening. The 2 people chose to go back to 70 AD. One went to Texas and one went to Africa. The story covers their adventures over a 5 year period of time. I liked the African adventure a little more.
This is a pretty interesting story. World is destroyed and only 2 people are left. The aliens looking after the world give the 2 people a chance to go back in time to try and prevent this from happening. The 2 people chose to go back to 70 AD. One went to Texas and one went to Africa. The story covers their adventures over a 5 year period of time. I liked the African adventure a little more.
November 23, 2021
Decent story
Fairly typical but decent story of time travel knowledge. For some reason the author keeps confusing charcoal with coal. To the point it is annoying. Still overall a pretty decent story.
Fairly typical but decent story of time travel knowledge. For some reason the author keeps confusing charcoal with coal. To the point it is annoying. Still overall a pretty decent story.
October 15, 2022
Historic
This series doesn’t pull any punches. It truly gives you an insight into ancient historical conditions and the challenges individuals faced, in a way no history textbook ever could. I highly recommend.
This series doesn’t pull any punches. It truly gives you an insight into ancient historical conditions and the challenges individuals faced, in a way no history textbook ever could. I highly recommend.
November 19, 2020
Great idea!!!
I love the plot and characters, but........ The word your is used in place of you're every single annoying time. What's up with that???????
I love the plot and characters, but........ The word your is used in place of you're every single annoying time. What's up with that???????
December 11, 2020
Wonderful
Great story concept. I was skeptical at first but once started I couldn’t put it down. Looking forward to the next installment.
Great story concept. I was skeptical at first but once started I couldn’t put it down. Looking forward to the next installment.
May 25, 2021
Hooked
I love time travel
I think this example of time travel and changing history is and will be great as the story continues to progress.
I love time travel
I think this example of time travel and changing history is and will be great as the story continues to progress.
December 19, 2021
Compelling
Ordinarily I wouldn’t give such a high mark to this book. The author needs to have their grammar checked by a professional
Editor. And there’s more telling than showing than there should be.
However, I found the story very compelling. The concept is very interesting and thought provoking.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t give such a high mark to this book. The author needs to have their grammar checked by a professional
Editor. And there’s more telling than showing than there should be.
However, I found the story very compelling. The concept is very interesting and thought provoking.
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