There Was No Sound of Thunder: A Time Portal Novel

New Guys Time Portal #2

by David Erik Nelson

What Could Go Wrong?"A novel about the folly of trying to force the world to be a better place, based on the award-winning short story "The New Guys Always Work Overtime."Just out of college, Taylor snagged a good job in human resources for Just-in-Time Fabrication and Fulfillment. While their competitors keep costs down by outsourcing and off-shoring, JiT is different: They're committed to staying "100% MADE IN AMERICA"-by bringing in cheap labor using a time portal. These quaint temp workers seem nice enough-coal miners, Colonial tinsmiths, sharecroppers-happy to work an honest day for quite generous wages (by the standards of their time). But the latest batch of New Guys aren't like the others: They're younger, and skinnier, and shaved bald, and only speak Yiddish. Now Taylor has to come to grips with bosses who haven't been entirely honest, threats to time-stream integrity, terrorists, meth dealers, spoon thieves, the "Problem of Too Many Hitlers," and the many perils that come with "trying to make the world a better place.

Kindle Edition

Published July 6, 2020

About the author

David Erik Nelson is an award-wining science-fiction/horror writer and essayist. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. Find his fiction online at https://www.davideriknelson.com/FreeFiction