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<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>From L. Ron Hubbard Golden Pen winner Desmond Astaire comes fourteen short stories spanning time travel to parallel universes to artificial intelligence and beyond collected in one book for the first time-including new stories never seen before.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A cop can stop time but at an irreversible cost. A bartender with a vendetta against the future must determine if his customer is a time traveling tourist. Two angels discuss the meaning of life in a godless universe over lattes. An FBI agent and his witch confidential informant hunt for an interstate killer using magic bullets. An Air Force staff sergeant vanished for nine days but was years older when found. Do you believe the government's story or the Otherworld Theory?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Get lost in a labyrinth of imagination in this first collection of speculative fiction stories by award-winning best-selling author Desmond Astaire.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><u>Stories featured in</u></em><u style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Epoch-1</u><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><u>:</u></em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Cherenkov Time</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Don't Speak to the Children</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Gale's Universal Escape Plan</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Gallows</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>It's a Nash Equilibrium Then</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Just a Latte</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Laurel Leaves' Message</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Love Hate and Dog Brain</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Obsidian Grackle</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Old Dean</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Paranorm</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Peacemaker Awakens</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Otherworld Theory</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>You are the Mother of Doomsday</span></p>