A Long Time Until Now

By: Michael Z. Williamson

Narrated by: Dennis Holland

Book one in a new series from the creator of the best-selling Freehold Universe series.

A military unit is thrust back into Paleolithic times with only their guns and portable hardware. Ten soldiers on convoy in Afghanistan suddenly find themselves lost in time. Somehow they arrived in Earth's Paleolithic Asia. With no idea how they arrived or how to get back, the shock of the event is severe. They discover groups of the similarly displaced: imperial Romans, Neolithic Europeans, and a small cadre of East Indian peasants.

Despite their technological advantage, the soldiers only have 10 people and know no way home. Then two more time travelers arrive from a future far beyond the present. These time travelers may have the means to get back, but they aren't giving it up. In fact they may have a treacherous agenda of their own, one that may very well lead to the death of the displaced in a harsh and dangerous era.

©2015 Michael Z. Williamson (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Time travel, yes!

I expect most science fiction fans will enjoy this story. Possibly the author's characterization could be better, but I didn't have an issue. The narration is well done. Totally worth the money and time.

Excellent book

Very well written and performed. I felt like I could see everything. The details are realistic and factually correct. I highly recommend it!

Great time travel/ military opps story

Only wish it could have been stretched out more. So many possibilities. Realistic interaction between the characters that took the possible 2D characters to reasonable 3D fleshed out portrait of each as could be done within the confines of such a relatively short story. Realistic tech descriptions and speculations.

Brilliant Premise No Delivery

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No, unless they like it dry

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I gave up halfway through

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes, absolutely

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes, because they would have to get to the point.

Any additional comments?

Too much preaching, amercia worship, and cardbboard characters to feel real

Time Travel is always a win

Where does A Long Time Until Now rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

it's somewhere in the top twenty

What did you like best about this story?

Time travel. Can't miss

Have you listened to any of Dennis Holland’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This was the first

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The Captain's execution of the wounded

Any additional comments?

It's worth a credit. Although like every time travel plot, it cops out at the end. No good way to tie up loose ends

very fair

meh so very meh.

feels like a good first draft of a writers first story.

I'm not saying I can do better but could have been 1/2 as long and 2x as interesting.

needed an editor and lets agreeable/1 dimensional characters

Interesting Time Travel Fantasy-first in a series?

My first exposure to author Williamson was this fun and even educational novel about a small troop of soldiers cope with being tossed back to the paleo years....the group of 8 male and 2 female soldiers bring an artificial amount of knowledge with them..the field medic happens to be in medical school, one of the women is a botanist and knows about plants that done exist in modern day, the captain is an engineer who can build, there is a soldier who is a linguist and can speak or learn to speak the locals language, as well as the language of several other transplanted warriors....... yada yada yada and on.

The concept is fun and it was presented well, with some occasional character development here and there. Many of the situations the modern day warriors find themselves read realistically and the way they work thru them is clever, however, I didn't get to know them well. And, of course, the 2 women are presented as cardboard characters fearing rape and, having few coping skills, cry. Theres quite a bit of sexual tension and the captain sets limits on co-habitation with natives, leaving the 2 female soldiers in more fear for their safety.

I felt the narration was the best part of this book. I've not heard Dennis Holland before and he did a good job bringing me into the paleo era with his excellent reading...he hasn't a lot of range with voices, but it didn't seem to be a problem to me while listening.

No more about the plot as I don't write spoilers but I will buy the next book in the series-in the end, this was a fun listen..almost a beach book type of listen-not absorbing but interesting.

Worth your credit if you're into time travel/military/survivalist or just fun stories.

prehistory

Not a bad fiction of the past through our own eyes and adaption to the environmeny.

Worth every penny

The potential for a series of stand alone books with the same story thread should be encouraged . Fascinating potentials !

Good nor bad

I liked the story but it was lacking in the fact that they were good people when they got lost, they went through the whole book and they were still good people when they got back. I felt like no character growth was achieved