With little choice but to adapt to his predicament, Kin builds a comfortable life for himself in the past, getting married and raising a daughter, Miranda. When a mission goes awry, he finds himself stranded in the Bay Area of the 1990s. It's his duty to preserve the integrity of recorded history and hunt down anyone who would attempt to alter the past for their own personal benefit. 'Here and Now and Then' focuses on the adventures of Kin Stewart, a secret agent for the Time Corruption Bureau (TCB), based in 2142. Instead of frolicking with dinosaurs or witnessing the heat death of the universe, his characters focus on more mundane, though no less compelling, near-future conflicts, those between parents and children, friends and lovers. With his debut novel, 'Here and Now and Then,' East Palo Alto writer Mike Chen finds a new wrinkle in time. You can visit Jesus Christ or save John F. The trick, however, is to find a fresh concept that hasn't been overworked. Tales of time travel have been around at least since the heyday of H.G. Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise.In 'Here and Now and Then,' Kin Stewart, a secret agent for the Time Corruption Bureau, is responsible for preserving the integrity of recorded history. “Heartfelt and thrilling… Chen’s concept is unique, and agony is deeply moving. With his daughter’s very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her-even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process. Torn between two lives, Kin’s desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives-eighteen years too late. Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter.īut his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future. He’ll go anywhere and any when to save his daughter One of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2019

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