T.I.T.O.R.: In early July of 1947, something crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. - Softcover

Surra, J.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983464758 ISBN 13: 9780983464754

Publisher: Quixotry, 2013

Synopsis

In early July of 1947, something crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. The military claims it’s a weather balloon. Witnesses insist they’ve seen bodies of aliens, and the wreckage of a UFO. Sixty-eight years pass. On September 15th, 2015, a massive nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States leaves five billion dead. All that's known is that the Roswell UFO wreckage was somehow involved. Another eighty-three years have passed. Project T.I.T.O.R. is a reality. Hop machines are created by top quantum physicists Ephraim Caine, Jeff Waldron, and Rose Rios. These complex crafts are designed to do one thing: penetrate the time barrier. Time is short. Earth; wounded, post-apocalyptic, with her dwindling resources on the verge of exhaustion, can barely support life. Project T.I.T.O.R. has a singular focus: to send hop crews back through time, and find some way to stop the nuclear exchange. To find some way to save the Earth. After more than two hundred routine missions, one goes awry, and in a mind-bending twist of fate, Hop 206 tumbles from the sky, crashing near Roswell, New Mexico, in early July of 1947, triggering the very historic events that project T.I.T.O.R. was meant to preclude. With everything stacked against them, can they succeed in changing history? Or will time prevail, blocking every effort to change it, and eliminating humanity in the process?

About this title

About the Author:

J.M. Surra grew up near Chatham, NY, amidst a unique assortment of area writers, musicians, and regular folks.

Just a stone's-throw from the Woodstock area in one direction, and West Stockbridge in the other, his corner of Columbia County attracted any number of colorful and even bizarre characters, ranging from a bit unusual to the unapologetically flamboyant.

By their very nature, these intriguing individuals encouraged the use of imagination and far-reaching trains of thought. But there was resistance as well.
J.M. vividly remembers one or two of his young friends refusing to play with him, claiming he "always told such big stories."  
Were they lies? Embellishments? J.M. gives a shrug and says, "They were stories. Fiction. What is fiction but well-told lies with all the trappings? Stories require imagination, in both the hearing and the telling. Those other kids had none. So, I'll let you guess. Who did I feel sorry for; them or me?"
With a grin, he offers, "Here's a clue. I never grew bored, and the stories only grew larger!"

His early travels took him to quite a number of other states, but he finally settled in Maine, where the rural settings and the locals caught him by the heartstrings, and there, for 25 years, he lived happily.

Due to the devastated Maine economy, J.M.  has become a Texas transplant.  Though Texas has its good points, J.M. still loves Maine, and still calls himself a Mainer.  He still has a home there, and whenever he can, he steals back to Maine to write, hike the Appalachian Trail, and of course, to visit his dear friends.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quixotry
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0983464758
• ISBN 13: 9780983464754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306