Published: Jan. 29, 2010
Words: 123779 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

I don't know how long it's been since my story began. It's hard to mark the years when they go by so quickly. I'm an involuntary time traveler. Sometimes I just leap into the future. At first it was a few seconds, then minutes, then days, weeks, and years. Who I was, who I am, and who I am perceived to be by those I've left behind are all very different. And how long have I before time runs out?

Extended description

What if you could travel into the future? What if you couldn’t stop travelling into the future? You might lose a minute or an hour. You’d get bewildered stares from your family when it takes you five minutes to retrieve your sister in-law’s cup of tea from the next room. You’d have to beg for your job when you missed a week because of jumping into the future. Blocks of time would suddenly be behind you. And during those blocks of time, people might leave. People might die. The world might change around you. What happens then if you start to lose years? Then people finally start to believe your story? Then they want to study you. They want to harness your curse as a power. As the generations pass you by, what does the world become in your absence? Who are you when you finally emerge into each new era?

I’ll tell you who you are. You’re Mathew Cristian, that’s who.

When Mathew begins to lose time, he loses the ability to maintain his secure lifestyle. He st... (Read more) What if you could travel into the future? What if you couldn’t stop travelling into the future? You might lose a minute or an hour. You’d get bewildered stares from your family when it takes you five minutes to retrieve your sister in-law’s cup of tea from the next room. You’d have to beg for your job when you missed a week because of jumping into the future. Blocks of time would suddenly be behind you. And during those blocks of time, people might leave. People might die. The world might change around you. What happens then if you start to lose years? Then people finally start to believe your story? Then they want to study you. They want to harness your curse as a power. As the generations pass you by, what does the world become in your absence? Who are you when you finally emerge into each new era?

I’ll tell you who you are. You’re Mathew Cristian, that’s who.

When Mathew begins to lose time, he loses the ability to maintain his secure lifestyle. He struggles to preserve what he has known for so long just because it is all that he does know. But as his leaps through time get longer and longer, the changes around him grow more and more stark. He emerges from his leaps disoriented and out of place. Sometimes he is hunted. Sometimes he is revered. He meets and forms strong bonds all because of his condition, only to have those bonds broken by that same condition. And yet, though the state of the world is different from era to era, the world itself rarely changes. Eons may pass, but humanity is a constant. Everyone is excited, preoccupied, afraid. And the further he goes through time, the more he evolves as a person, the less frantic becomes his search for a cure and the more curious he becomes about what’s on the other side of the next leap.
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Tags

science fiction, future, conspiracy, time travel

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Reviews

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Review by: tomwantsrez on June 23, 2011 :
Absolutely fantastic, Draws you in within 20 pages and keeps you hooked until the end, begging to know what adventures happened before the epilogue. I disagree with the comment about extending the epilogue, it gives a nice clean ending while still leaving plenty for your imagination to fill in.
Thanks for the great read :)
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Albert Robbins on March 27, 2011 :
This is an incredible book and draws you right into it whithout a second glance. The author gets you right in tune with the character and takes you on the journey right along with Mathew. Do not pass up the chance for a great science fiction novel and click on the buy this book now.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: gavyno on Feb. 22, 2011 :
Brilliant, I couldn't put it down.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Lucas Hildebrand on Nov. 16, 2010 :
An enjoyable read. The lead character Mathew is very well written and easy to connect with. The story is very exciting.

The only thing I would change is to tighten up some of the times of confilct after he has started jumping, and expand upon the epilogue.

You can preview half of this book online before you buy. I did that and immediately bought it once the preview ran out.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: Marcus Malone on June 29, 2010 :
I downloaded this book for my iPhone a few months ago, and I'm sorry I haven't reviewed this absolutely excellent book sooner.

From the very beginning (Reading the short description on feedbooks), I was engaged in the idea. On reading the first few chapters, I'd realised that I had, in my opinion, stumbled upon the golden book among the heaps of subpar original literature that is offered on feedbooks. Your book is the kind that only comes around every so often.

You introduced me to Mathew and his struggle, made me feel the roller coaster-like emotion of a man whose life changes literally in the blink of an eye. Gave me characters to care about... only to have them left years behind, long dead, or unreachable. Following this man who witnesses the changes of society, language, and himself. I'm sure you can imagine me clutching my iPhone with intensity.

When I read books, I imagine them as movies in my mind, but when I finished your book, I felt as if I had just watched a TV show marathon, or a miniseries of some kind; with each "episode" bringing a new set of circumstances, but still revolving around the main arc. I wouldn't be disappointed in seeing that on TV in the future. Haha.

It was a wonderful read, and just writing this review makes me want to go back and read it again. Thank you very much for this wanted surprise in feedbooks, and I hope to see it published someday so I can buy it.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Zacharias O'Bryan on June 17, 2010 :
Forty Leap will ambush you. Not since Phillip K Dick has a sci-fi author so perfectly captured the plight/fight of an individual when up against the deadly, unswerving power of the state. The book has a lit-noir feel to it, somehow balanced with an aw-shucks innocence. Folks, this one is a winner.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: laymo on March 18, 2010 : (no rating)
I dont know how to rate, but I'd give it 5 stars.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: laymo on March 18, 2010 : (no rating)
I enjoyed reading this book very much and will recommend to my friends.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: david olivieri on March 08, 2010 :
This is a great book. I read the first 4 chapters and I can't wait to finish the rest. The ideas are original and unpredictable. It is a true delight!.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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