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Wasting Time Audiobook Tour

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Physics, Lust and Greed Series Book 2

Humorous Science Fiction

Date Published: 12/2/21

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

 

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When time travelers fail test after test to significantly alter the past,
most financial backers abandon the Global Research Consortium leaving
veteran traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project.
She must protect the past from a greedy future, fend off political meddling,
and foil a murder plot originating in a parallel universe. She presides over
a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friend’s death while coping with
a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement involving fellow
traveler Marshall Grissom.

Marta, who has by professional necessity always distanced herself from
emotional commitment, lapsed by allowing herself the luxury of friendship
with Sheila Schuler and a night of wild sex with Marshall. Now, Sheila is
probably dead, and—according to a genius physicists’ theory—Marshall soon
will be. As she assumes her role as administrator of the time travel
program, Marta must choose between the risks of loving someone, or the
lonely safety of emotional solitude.

(No cats were harmed in the telling of this story.)

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About the Author

Mike Murphey

Mike Murphey is a native of New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an
award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest.
His debut novel, Section Roads, has been recognized by Indie Reader
Discovery Awards, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards, The IAN Book of the
Year Awards, the Somerset Contemporary Fiction Awards, and the Independent
Publishers Book Awards. His novel, The Conman has been recognized by the
International Book Awards, the eLit Awards and the Manhattan Book Awards. He
has also published Taking Time … a Tale of Physics, Lust and Greed. Wasting
Time, the second book in the Physics, Lust and Greed series. Mike loves
fiction, cats, baseball and sailing. He splits his time between Spokane,
Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Taking Time Audio Book Tour

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…a Tale of Physics, Lust and Greed
 
Humorous Science Fiction
 
Audiobook Release: June 26 2021
 
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
 
Narrator: Melanie Hooks 
 
Run Time: 10 hours and 17 minutes
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The year is 2044. Housed in a secret complex beneath the eastern Arizona desert, a consortium of governments and corporations have undertaken a program on the scale of the Manhattan Project to bludgeon the laws of physics into submission and make time travel a reality.
 
            Fraught with insecurities, Marshall Grissom has spent his whole life trying not to call attention to himself, so he can’t imagine he would be remotely suited for the role of time travel pioneer. He’s even less enthusiastic about this corporate time-travel adventure when he learns that nudity is a job requirement. The task would better match the talents of candidates like the smart and beautiful Sheila Schuler, or the bristle-tough and rattlesnake-mean Marta Hamilton.
 
            As the project evolves into a clash between science and corporate greed, conflicts escalate. Those contributing the funding are mostly interested in manipulating time travel for profit, and will stop at nothing, including murder, to achieve their goals.
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About the Author

Mike Murphey

Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Following his retirement from the newspaper business, he and his wife Nancy entered in a seventeen-year partnership with the late Dave Henderson, all-star centerfielder for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners. Their company produced the A’s and Mariners adult baseball Fantasy Camps. They also have a partnership with the Roy Hobbs adult baseball organization in Fort Myers, Florida. Mike loves fiction, cats, baseball and sailing. He splits his time between Spokane, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.
 
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Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 3

 

Humorous Science Fiction

Date Published: May 11, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

At every crossroads he has encountered in life, Sean Brody has made the safe choice. In the year 2046, at the age of ninety-three, Sean is given one final opportunity to deal with his greatest regret. Sean is the only man Marshall Grissom and Marta Hamilton can find who might be able to save Sheila Schuler, their friend and fellow traveler lost in the distant reaches of time. If Sean accepts the task of traveling to his childhood in a parallel universe—with no guarantee that any aspect of the past can be changed—Sean must also accept his death in the only world he knows.

 

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That’s when the horror began. Bizarre scenes flashed through Amanda’s brain, crowding everything comforting and familiar off to one side. Each thread of this torrent was snapped by some vivid instantaneous image of people she didn’t know, and a world she didn’t recognize. Each image seemed to be swallowed by another as soon as it appeared. She saw herself, naked and terrified as a leering man reached for her. She saw—and heard—a stark, white empty space filled with voices. She encountered a parade of people she’d never seen before. But she knew their names—Marshall, Marta, Elvin, Gretchen, Naomi. Then she saw herself again. She tasted raw fear. She felt everything about herself slipping—no being dragged—away. She saw death reaching a skeletal hand to her throat.

Her face became a picture of abject fear. Her eyes darted wildly.

“Concussion!” shouted Miss Best. “Young lady, you must not go to sleep!”

With an aside to the rest of the class Miss Best added, “You must never allow someone who has suffered a concussion to sleep.”

“Miss Best, shouldn’t we call someone?” Joni asked.

Miss Best squinted at Joni and said, “Don’t panic, Miss Miller. Right now, we have to call someone. Mr. Janson, would you please go to the office and tell them we need medical assistance in the chemistry lab.”

Joni knelt next to Amanda.

Amanda felt an overwhelming darkness marching across her brain, taking pieces of her as it went. She was being strangled mentally. Now the darkness began to encompass her. She summoned her strength to make one, desperate plea. I . . . I am Amanda. Amanda Page. The blackness began to retreat. But this other pervasive presence, the other existence, remained.

“Amanda,” Joni pleaded, “Amanda. Please! Tell me what’s wrong!”

Joni’s voice wove itself into the other voices and all the images thundering through her perception. She clamped her hands over her ears, squeezed her eyes shut and said with stark desperation, “There’s someone in my head! Get them out! Please! Get them out!”

About The Author

Mike Murphey


Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. He left journalism in 1998 to form a business related to adult amateur baseball. At the age of 60, he stopped procrastinating and revived his life-long ambition to write a novel. He is author of Sections, an award-winning coming of age novel set in Eastern New Mexico where Mike grew up. He is also author of The Conman … a Baseball Odyssey, another award-winning novel. Killing Time is the third novel in his Physics, Lust and Greed Series. Mike splits his time between Spokane, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.

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Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 3

 

Humorous Science Fiction

Date Published: May 11, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

At every crossroads he has encountered in life, Sean Brody has made the safe choice. In the year 2046, at the age of ninety-three, Sean is given one final opportunity to deal with his greatest regret. Sean is the only man Marshall Grissom and Marta Hamilton can find who might be able to save Sheila Schuler, their friend and fellow traveler lost in the distant reaches of time. If Sean accepts the task of traveling to his childhood in a parallel universe—with no guarantee that any aspect of the past can be changed—Sean must also accept his death in the only world he knows.

About the Author

Mike Murphey


Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. He left journalism in 1998 to form a business related to adult amateur baseball. At the age of 60, he stopped procrastinating and revived his life-long ambition to write a novel. He is author of Sections, an award-winning coming of age novel set in Eastern New Mexico where Mike grew up. He is also author of The Conman … a Baseball Odyssey, another award-winning novel. Killing Time is the third novel in his Physics, Lust and Greed Series. Mike splits his time between Spokane, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.

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Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 3

 

Humorous Science Fiction

Date Published: May 11, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

At every crossroads he has encountered in life, Sean Brody has made the safe choice. In the year 2046, at the age of ninety-three, Sean is given one final opportunity to deal with his greatest regret. Sean is the only man Marshall Grissom and Marta Hamilton can find who might be able to save Sheila Schuler, their friend and fellow traveler lost in the distant reaches of time. If Sean accepts the task of traveling to his childhood in a parallel universe—with no guarantee that any aspect of the past can be changed—Sean must also accept his death in the only world he knows.

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Marshall’s response didn’t register, though, because Sean looked beyond Naomi and saw two huge gleaming globes flanking a white, brightly lit platform tinged by a throbbing green glow beneath its surface. Banks of computers, monitors and cameras edged the platform on three sides.

The globes pulsed with a bluish electronic sort of ooze that seemed to creep along their surfaces in random patterns. Where Sean could have sworn an instant before had been empty space between the globes, he saw a lovely, petite, and very nude black woman standing before him. He wondered if she had been there all along, and he’d somehow missed her among the computers and cameras and other shiny things. But . . . no. Old as he might be, Sean was pretty sure he could still tell the difference between a computer and a naked lady.

He felt frozen. He could not bring himself to speak or move. Like a needle stuck on an old phonograph record, his mind simply could not jump beyond this particular groove.

A comforting arm slipped through his and Sean found Naomi beside him.

I’m sure you’re finding this a bit overwhelming. Do you need to sit? Can I bring you a bottle of water?”

Sean stared silently into the small Chinese woman’s black eyes for a moment before turning back toward the nudist.

Hello, Mr. Brody,” said the woman, who now wore a white robe. “I know my entrance was a little theatrical. And I apologize for that, but we wanted to impress you. I’m Marta Hamilton. I think Marshall has mentioned me? You’ve just witnessed my return from a brief conference with my counterpart from another universe a few days past. And I do have to admit the timing wasn’t coincidental. We needed to get your attention.”

Sean continued to stare. He found this reality too much to process.

I know Marshall hasn’t given you all the details yet. I sincerely hope you will agree to help us, though. We will be asking—‍”

My God,” Sean croaked through a sandpaper dry throat, believing all this for the first time. “You people want me to be fifteen years old again.”

About The Author

Mike Murphey


Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. He left journalism in 1998 to form a business related to adult amateur baseball. At the age of 60, he stopped procrastinating and revived his life-long ambition to write a novel. He is author of Sections, an award-winning coming of age novel set in Eastern New Mexico where Mike grew up. He is also author of The Conman … a Baseball Odyssey, another award-winning novel. Killing Time is the third novel in his Physics, Lust and Greed Series. Mike splits his time between Spokane, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.

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