Tiny Time Machine

<p><em><strong>All 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 action-packed novel from Nebula Award nominee John E. Stith.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>Meg is an angry scientist's 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.</p><p> </p><p>Meg has become a loner obsessed with combatting polluters like the ones who triggered her mother's 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. </p><p> </p><p>When Meg and Josh suddenly find themselves on the run from the cops Meg heads for the one man who should always take her in--her father.</p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>When the invention proves to be the time machine that holds the key to humanity's future Meg and Josh must find a way to do the impossible--to work as a team.</p><p>They are up against the cops a powerful billionaire a Russian profiteer and a romantic rival.</p><p> </p><p>Can they save the world and save each other?</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>About Stith's prior work:</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Stith writes in the best hard-sf 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 hard-sf practitioners. - Booklist</strong></em></p><p> </p>