Title: THE EDISON ENIGMA
Author: Thomas White
Publisher: Thomas White
Pages: 196
Genre: Scifi/Mystery
Edison, a Chicago physicist, manages to successfully transport an object through time. Almost immediately following this success Dr. Edison is shut out of the facility and told by benefactor Raphael Barrington, to take a vacation. He is contacted by Don Rivendell, a grizzled old man with a secret. Rivendell explains to Tom that he is not the first person to discover time travel. Someone else went back and changed history by saving a young girl from dying in an internal combustion engine explosion.
Dr. Edison is tasked with going back and fixing history. He travels back to 1904 to find the younger version of Rivendell and stop him from saving the girl.
FAVORITE QUOTE FROM FIRST CHAPTER:
They all headed to the lab to attempt to send a watermelon through time.
BOOK COVER:
Love the swirling blues...looks like what a trip through time would look like.
FIRST CHAPTER REVIEW:
The first chapter of this book starts out with Dr. Tom Edison driving down Southbound Lakeshore Drive in bumper to bumper traffic with an accident ahead of him of all things when he remembers to call Dr. Bruce Reeves at the lab. He tells him he's on his way. Upon arriving, he is greeted by his assistant, Jerzy Bartley. He's sitting there and he hears noises in the ventilation shaft. And then a beam of light. Which got closer and closer. Inside the beam of light, a female holds an uplink device called The Quince which ran everything in the facility. She manages to end up standing directly behind Dr. Edison. Her name was Dr. Lori Pellitier. When Dr. Edison sees Lori, it startles him. So Lori holds up the Quince and holographic images emerged. So then they decide to send a watermelon through time. And the rest is history.
KEEP READING?
What an interesting first chapter this was! I'm figuring from this first chapter that we're about to see what it look likes to time travel. The watermelon was the first item they wanted to try it out on. Who knows what will be next? While it was a little bit of jargon that was necessary for this chapter, there were words out of my league but I still could understand what was going on picturing the whole thing right in front of me. I loved the characters and would be more than welcome to continue seeing where their journeys take them. Heck yes I will keep reading!
Thomas White began his career as an actor. Several years later he found himself as an Artistic Director for a theatre in Los Angeles and the winner of several Drama-Logue and Critics awards for directing. As Tom’s career grew, he directed and co-produced the world tour of “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out Of Their Shells”. The show toured for over two years, was translated into seven different languages and seen by close to a million children. Tom served as President and Creative Director for Maiden Lane Entertainment for 24 years and worked on many large-scale corporate event productions that included Harley Davidson, Microsoft, Medtronic Diabetes, and dozens of others. The Edison Enigma is Tom’s third novel following up Justice Rules which was nominated as a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2010 Literary contest, and The Siren’s Scream.
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