Ryan's Undoing

Timeless Void #4

by Craig Robertson

Guess who's may just need to end time? You got it! Jon Ryan may be forced to cancel, terminate, and definitively end time itself everywhere. Why is Jon straying in that direction? Well he wanted to fix the timeline. After the Clan no-timed Earth and Jon resurrected it, he was stressed that the new future would void out the very future that gave us our hero, Jon. So he did his best to fix the timeline according to how he thought it should be.



You know how when you do something and it doesn't turn out well at all and somebody asks you how it went and you don't want to lie but you don't want to tell them either? Yeah, that's kind of how it's going with Jon and his timeline repair job. He's changed time, but, like monkey's paw magic, the results are not what he desired. Now, impossible, explainable, and undesirable events are happening all over universe. Jon is beginning to lose faith in his plan. By the way, everyone else did long ago.



As reality dwindles, can Jon reverse his run of bad luck, or will he just make existence worse? The only way to find out is to read Ryan's Undoing, Book 4 of the Timeless Void. All your questions will be answered. Now we just need to find out if Jon will like those answers. Yikes! Better read this one sitting down.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 22, 2022

About the author

I claim three great accomplishments in my life: my family, my medical career, and my writing.  They are in, I am certain, their proper order.  My family, includes my perfect wife Karen, my wonderful children (adults now) Chris and Kim, my sweet grandson Jonathan. And now you! From family, I draw strength, love, and meaning.  What humbling gifts.  I am almost as proud of my incredible career as a physician (no, not that I'm incredible, it's that the journey was).  I'm an Internest and have worked in ER's, hospitals, clinics, homes, and most places between.  What a rush!  When I say it's an honor and a privilege to be a doctor, I truly mean it.  My writings, provide me a powerful creative outlet and so warms my soul directly.  In my wilder dreams, I hope my writing is of sufficient merit and so benefit you too in an impactful manner. 
Know me by what I love: Dickens, Orwell, and Bradbury; Milton, Donne, and Blake; Coltrane, Davis, and Desmond; Picasso, Michelangelo, and Renoir; Astronomy, Biology and Geology; Doctor Who, Star Trek (original TV), and Doctor Who (yeah, I love it that much); Avedon, Doisneau, and Arbus; burger and fries, coc au vin, and pizza-pizza-pizza.  Have I left anything important to me out?  Just one, the most important: God.  I'm an ex-Catholic wondering if churches are device of men and are necessary at all.  More importantly, I wish I spent more time seeing His wonder in the world (I'm not evangelizing, just passing along info; this is a bio, n'est pas?).  Oh, and this has never come up, but there used to be a series of magazine ads where sexy looking people were asked a series of questions about what they liked.  A standard query was: "What's your favorite word?"  So, this really stuck with me (I know, I need to get out more, don't I) and now I can tell someone, you, my favorite word.  Oneself!  I love it.  It means 'on your own' right, but it also refers to the elf you own!  Brilliant word.  Now, where'd I put that elf.......

Reviews

[Kenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Ryanverse is unequalled in the modern sci-fi genre

This series is an adventure for, the creative pseudo science mind of Craig Robertson. The characters, in particular, Jon Ryan, live within a framework that seems more than real. It’s a hyper-real sort of read. The characters are humorous, clever, morose and snarky. They have ideas, “Jon-plans” and enact fabulous love and hate affairs. It is a fantastical world within ours, one that deserves exploring and revisiting again and again. If you have Audible, I highly recommend listening to the many books within the Ryanverse as the narrator, Scott Aiello, brings all the many heroes, villains, crazy aliens and even minor characters to vivid life. Read or listen to these books, it’s worth your valuable time, you’re welcome in advance.

[Rob Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is He Insane?

I love Jon Ryan. His exploits are the stuff of legend and no one can make a machine or alien lose their minds like he can. He’s hilarious. I think he’s insane. No one in their right mind messes with time; no one in their right mind ignores every warning not to mess with time - and does it anyway.

This is a different Jon. Obsessed. Behaving like he doesn’t have two doctorate degree and one in physics. What a ride this series is! Climb aboard and fasten your seatbelts!

[Kevin Huff · Rating 5 out of 5]

It all goes wrong. For real this time. I feel this is quite the setup.