Charlie Nash

Timefield Charlie Nash

The debut science fiction thriller from multiple Aurealis and Ditmar Award nominee, Charlie Nash, "... high level action and suspense ... it is unputdownable!"

London, 1884. Time-traveler David Blakeney witnesses a brutal execution at Queen Victoria's hand, a warning to deliver on promises long-ago made. Promises he never could fulfil.

Now. In a war-scarred future England, has-been soldier Leo Fawkes receives a midnight call from his sister, Helen, a brilliant but reclusive physicist. What starts as a favour puts Leo in front of The Machine, an instrument of science ... and a deadly weapon.

For The Machine has created an alternate past, a Victorian age where Nikola Tesla is changing the world in England. It's a past that could undo the future wars, but it's not a reality, not yet. Because others have audacious plans to steal Tesla's secrets. As forces close both then and now, Tesla's war-ending work hangs in a balance of powerful plotters, railguns, deep secrets, and the inertia of all of history. Within the walls of his laboratory, a whole other history will stand or fall, and everything will change. Tonight.