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Take Back Tomorrow

By: Richard Levesque
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
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Summary

Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats.

He knew he'd get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable: his idol, the SF master, Chester Blackwood. To Eddie's great surprise, however, Blackwood has secrets of his own, and instead of outing him, the master storyteller quickly embroils Eddie in a real-life mystery of time travel, beautiful women, and Hollywood gangsters. But then Blackwood disappears, so if Eddie wants to keep both the fame and the girl, he's going to have to do the one thing he's never been able to get right before: plot his way out of a crisis.

And the stakes if he fails? The very future of science fiction itself.

©2012 Richard Levesque (P)2015 Richard Levesque
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HG Wells meets Raymond Chandler

This was an interesting listen, and I loved it. The noir feel, the SciFi, the beautiful heroine, the pure of heart hero, and the conniving bad guys, loved every minute of it. Levesque’s story combined with Cohen’s narrative is just on point. Would recommend this to anyone who likes 1940s gumshoe SciFi stories.

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Excellent old school science fiction

Take Back Tomorrow written by Richard Levesque is the story of Eddie Royce, a science fiction writer that still hasn’t made any significant impact in the world. He encounters a much more famous science fiction writer, who bestows upon Eddie a secret that will turn his life upside down. Unfortunately, there’s more to it that Eddie could ever imagine, and we get to experience how he unravels all the questions that keeps building up.

The writing was quite nice, and as the blurp describes, is very Heinlein’ish in both prose and story integrity. As Heinlein is one of my all time favorite writers, I very much enjoyed the story. The characters are well described with their personal individualities coming out quite nicely. The story flowed nicely, and the plot was quite coherent in my opinion.
The first part of the book was a bit slow to develop, but as soon as it picked up, it kept me captivated throughout, and I will definitely go through it again at least once, since I enjoyed it so much. The plot got increasingly more complex, but it never went overboard. As with most of Heinleins stuff, this is very much a very down to earth story, despite having both developing mysteries, and time travel. It is character driven a large part of the book, but the excellent and likeable characters, of which there weren’t too many, carries the story very well. I loved the ending, that had a nice science fiction twist to it.

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Steven Jay Cohen, who did an excellent job, with good individual voices, and clear and exciting speech throughout the book. It was a joy to listen to.

Overall, if you enjoy a good science fiction book with time travel, mysteries, or have a big affection for old school science fiction stories (I won’t tell why!), then this is for you. Very much recommended.

I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).

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good book


Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats.

He knew he'd get caught, of course.
its a good book

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