A Time and a Place

“ENTERTAINING, CHAOTIC ADVENTURE.” ~ Publishers Weekly.

Barnabus J. Wildebear is an ordinary guy who promises his sister on her deathbed that he’ll keep her teen-aged son Ridley safe.

He fails.

First, they don’t get along. Then a beautiful stranger lures the boy through a trans-dimensional portal to help battle an ancient evil. To protect Ridley, Barnabus must follow him through the portal to the strange and dangerous dimensions beyond, into the fog of alien war…

An ill-timed sneeze deposits Barnabus in the past, hours before his sister’s tragic demise. Barnabus seizes the chance to change history and save his beloved sister. By so doing, maybe he can make all his terrible problems go away.

But can it really be that easy?

Joe Mahoney works full-time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he's helped make many radio shows over the years, including Writers and Company, Quirks and Quarks, and Q. He's produced documentaries on science fiction for The Arts Tonight and The Current. He produced Six Impossible Things, a compilation of short fantastical fiction, curated by Nalo Hopkinson, for Between the Covers, and wrote and produced Faster Than Light, hosted by Robert J. Sawyer, for Sunday Showcase. He spent a decade making radio plays, working on productions such as The Merchant of Venice, The Handmaid's Tale, and Afghanada, with some of the finest actors, directors and writers in Canada. He engineered and story-edited Steve the First, a post-apocalyptic science fiction radio play mini-series, and its sequel, Steve the Second, which won a silver Mark Time Award. He produced and directed the pilot of Canadia: 2056, and story-edited all subsequent episodes. He is responsible for all the funniest bits. In 2007, Joe left production to join the CBC management team. These days he's Director of Production Support. Joe's short fiction has been published in Canada, Australia and Greece. He's been nominated twice for an Aurora Award, one of Canada's top awards for science fiction and fantasy, for his work on CBC Radio. Joe lives in Whitby with his wife and two daughters, and their golden retriever and Siberian forest cat.