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Time Travelers Never Die

by Jack McDevitt
Paul Boehmer
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When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time—or worse—Shel enlists Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission.


Their journey through history takes them from the Enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil rights upheavals of the twentieth century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive.


And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages and changes his life forever.

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  • Release date

    January 25, 2010

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400194339
      • File size: 385479 KB
      • Duration: 13:23:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Paul Boehmer's resonant voice and excellent acting add some weight and color to this pedestrian sci-fi yarn, which takes the listener through most of the time-traveling tropes. When Adrian Shelbourne's father, a prominent physicist, develops a time machine and disappears, Adrian and his friend, Dave, set off to find him, launching a prolonged series of time-travel tourism jaunts and tricks to help them escape when things get dangerous. Most of the twists and turns are entirely predictable, and impatience brought on by waiting for the characters to catch up may encourage the listener to perform his or her own time travel on the story by fast-forwarding to the end. A.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 28, 2009
      McDevitt (Seeker
      ) avoids flashy action scenes in this tale of two friends using a time machine to take a grand tour of history. When Adrian “Shel” Shelbourne's physicist father disappears and leaves behind a time-travel device, Shel and his friend Dave Dryden, a language expert, search for Shel's father in Galileo's Italy, Selma during the civil rights marches and other famous times and places. Realizing that time resists paradoxes and history can't be changed, the two friends seize the opportunity to live enriching, truly humane lives from Thermopylae to a few minutes in the future. As the paradoxes begin to pile up and their luck in dodging some of history's villains runs out, McDevitt ingeniously handles a tricky denouement that will leave readers satisfied.

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  • English

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