Published: Jan. 21, 2011
Words: 58,572 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452409627

Short description

Augustus Wilder, driving on a lonely mountain road, is given a time-travel device by beings from another galaxy. He is charged with the responsibility of negotiating with 31st century earthlings for their DNA. The aliens, because of atomic warfare,have mutated badly. Augustus travels a thousand years into the future where he enlists the aid of a woman of exotic beauty. Will they save humanity?

Extended description

After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escaped to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and established a new civilization. They wanted to restore their bodies, so they searched the universe and found people living on Earth in the thirty-first century with perfect bodies. The Antons wanted to use the earthlings' DNA, but the earthlings had powerful weapons and wouldn’t allow the Antons to enter their atmosphere.
The Antons place a time-travel device in the hands of Gus Wilder, an American engineer of the twenty-first century, hoping he will serve as their emissary in dealing with earthlings of the thirty-first century. They influence Gus to travel a thousand years into the future where he finds an advanced society who have created a paradise on earth. These earthlings have overcome every human frailty and provided for every need. The women are all beautiful and the men are all ha.. (Read more) After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escaped to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and established a new civilization. They wanted to restore their bodies, so they searched the universe and found people living on Earth in the thirty-first century with perfect bodies. The Antons wanted to use the earthlings' DNA, but the earthlings had powerful weapons and wouldn’t allow the Antons to enter their atmosphere.
The Antons place a time-travel device in the hands of Gus Wilder, an American engineer of the twenty-first century, hoping he will serve as their emissary in dealing with earthlings of the thirty-first century. They influence Gus to travel a thousand years into the future where he finds an advanced society who have created a paradise on earth. These earthlings have overcome every human frailty and provided for every need. The women are all beautiful and the men are all handsome. These earthlings live long into the future and strive for immortality. Gus meets and falls in love with an earth woman called Jan-3.
The Antons tell Gus why he was chosen and, if he fails, they will destroy planet Earth. He and Jan-3 set out to save humanity.
Can they fulfill their destiny?
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Tags

romance, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, aliens, los angeles, futuristic, time travel, intrigue, galaxy

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Review by: don dicksion on March 26, 2011 :
Have you ever wanted to go back and do one thing over again? That one small, stupid thing that irrevocably placed you on a path you would not have chosen? What if you cold do that for the whole of humanity?

In the tradition of Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke, Dicksion explores what might be possible if one man had the power to move about in time at the push of a button. Rule number one; don’t lose that button. Rule number two……well, you get the idea. What if you peek at the future and it is really, really bad? Can you fix it? Would you? Should you? Are people smarter in the future? Is God out there somewhere? Dicksion explores these mind-bending questions with a character whose common sense and sensibility make these questions not so tough, and not so frightening. Though occasionally drifting into a little “trekie” he doesn’t lose his way, and the trip is a real eye-opener.

“Button” is ideal for young readers, and those young in spirit, who can set aside black and white reality to explore the colorful universe of the plausible on a quest for real answers to the hardest questions.
Don
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Gene Parola on Feb. 09, 2011 : (no rating)
I met Bill Dicksion years ago when he was making that transformation from a storyteller to a writer. I kept up with his Westerns as they came out in print, but I didn't discover 'A Button in the Fabric Time' until a fellow fan clued me in. "It's Bill, but it's not Oklahoma Bill," he told me over the phone. "And it's an e-book. He's gone electronic!!" So I looked it up and he was almost right. This was Bill the scientist writing and he was writing in first person, a much more personal adventure--even if it's Science Fiction.
The story has that touch of detail that I find in all his books. It always pulls me into the action. I'm glad to see him working in a new genre.
Gene Parola, Ph.D.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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