A new highconcept idea for time travel Reader reviewAll life on Earth will die of thirst unless a couple of loners on the run can use a strange time machine to stop a secret project An actionpacked short novel from a Nebula Award nominee.Meg is an angry scientists daughter. Her father is not a mad scientist just really angry so angry that he and Meg have rarely spoken since the death of her mother.Meg has become a loner obsessed with combatting polluters like the ones who triggered her mothers death. And her father has had a different obsession.When Meg breaks into a paint company to expose their practices she runs into Josh another loner out to save the world.When Meg and Josh suddenly find themselves on the run from the cops Meg heads for the one man who should always take her inher father.But when Meg and Josh reach him they find him dying. Just before he dies he gives Meg a strange device that looks like a cellphone and tells her to use extreme caution.When the invention proves to be the time machine that holds the key to humanitys future Meg and Josh must find a way to do the impossibleto work as a team.They are up against the cops a powerful billionaire a Russian profiteer and a romantic rival.Can they save the world and save each otherAbout Stiths prior workStith writes in the best hardsf manner dropping characters into a situation that can be solved only by thought and reason but he also more modernly creates real and believable characters. He is becoming one of the most eloquent modern hardsf practitioners. BooklistOrder your copy and join the quest for humanitys survival today