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An irreverent, liberal, twisty time-travel comedy!
What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and five billion people poof from existence? Would you do it?
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Spanning from the Cretaceous period to 2056, Time Is Irreverent is a hilarious, thought-provoking satire, with unpredictable twists, colorful aliens, huge dinosaurs, a smokin' hot lesbian from the future, and a cameo from Jesus Christ himself!
Publisher's Warning: This book is intended for a liberal audience and features satirical content that may not be appropriate for Donald Trump supporters or those who are offended by views that challenge traditional religious beliefs. Common side effects include wide smiles, sudden laughter, and occasional snorts. Listener discretion is advised.
Critic reviews
“Highly recommend. It’s fun, clever, cool, witty, surprising, political, sexy, everything a sci-fi book should be. And as someone who’s also written a sci-fi-time-travel-humor novel, I love that Marty Essen doesn’t break the time rules he sets up from the start – so many sci-fi authors do, and as far as I’m concerned, that's just lazy writing. Not the case here! Yes, his characters learn and adapt and grow, but the foundation of his rules remain intact always. To repeat: fun, witty, surprising, sexy. Highly recommend.” (Jeff Abugov, writer, producer, director, and Golden Globe Award, Peabody Award, and People’s Choice Award-winner)
“[Time Is Irreverent is] a delightful romp that scores solid satirical points about religion, human nature, sex, the Trump administration, and a great deal more.” (Tom Flynn, Free Inquiry magazine)
“Ironic, original, hysterically funny, deftly crafted, and an impressively entertaining read from first page to last, Time Is Irreverent by Marty Essen is an especially and unreserved recommended for community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of dedicated science fiction fans that Time Is Irreverent is also available in a digital book format.” (Midwest Book Review)
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On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Waste of Space
- By: Gina Damico
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Cram 10 hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama - and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship replica is equipped with state-of-the-art special effects dreamed up by the scientists partnering with the shady cable network airing the show.
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- By Diane S. on 07-28-17
By: Gina Damico
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Mutineer
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- By: Mike Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
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Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the prime minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris' blood - and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the Marines.
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- By Jeffery on 09-29-10
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Heart-Shaped Hack
- Kate and Ian, Book 1
- By: Tracey Garvis Graves
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When Kate Watts opens a food pantry in Minneapolis, she never dreamed it would be this difficult. Facing the prospect of turning hungry people away, she is grateful for the anonymous donations that begin appearing. Determined to identify and thank her secret benefactor, she launches a plan and catches Ian in the act.
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- By Janet Henderson on 05-03-19
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Gateways
- Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl
- By: Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, and others
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.
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Spectacular.
- By Steve Reid on 08-21-15
By: Greg Bear, and others
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against.
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- By Wes Parker on 03-19-09
By: Joe Haldeman
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You're Going to Mars!
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Living and slaving in Fill City One, you get used to the smell. We call it the Everpresent Stink. But every once in a while, on a spring day with a breeze, it clears away enough to remind us that there is something more out there. Most Fillers' wildest dreams would be just to get past the walls and live in the mainland. But my dream? It’s a little bigger. I’m going to Mars.
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Reviewers Choice Award, its that good
- By Midwestbonsai on 11-13-18
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- By: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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- By Sean on 03-05-16
By: Cory Doctorow, and others
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The Plantation
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- By: Chris Kuzneski
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The first to disappear is a ski instructor in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Hours later, a pregnant woman is abducted from a crowded hospital. Two places, two incidents, a single motive. And so it begins....
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Incredible Story
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The Number of the Beast
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
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The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.
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One Aching Pain Short of Heaven
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Under the Cajun Moon
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What secrets can be found by the light of the Cajun moon? New Orleans may be the "Big Easy", but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs, only to learn a longhidden secret that changes everything she knew to be true about herself and her family.
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Independence Day: Crucible
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Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.
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Prelude to Mayhem
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- By: Edward Aubry
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In the ruins of his world, Harrison Cody follows a mysterious voice on the radio as he and his pixie sidekick travel on foot across a terrifyingly random landscape. They discover Dorothy O'Neill, who has had to survive among monsters when her greatest worry used to be how to navigate high school. Together they search for what remains of Chicago, and the hope that civilization can be rebuilt.
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Fun and unique post-apocalyptic fiction
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- cosmitron
- 06-07-18
A fun Science Fiction Adventure.
Its rare that a Writer can pull off a humorous Science Fiction story but this is a winner.With the help of a good Narrator most
listeners will have fun listening to this Futuristic romp and will watch time defy the Spacetime-Continuum.
Sit back and enjoy the ride.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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- Ron B.
- 05-23-18
Jr. High Comedy
If you enjoy Jr. High jokes about Uranus and a disturbing dismissal of any religion in favor of science. This book is for you. If on the other hand you, like most people, have a preferred religion or at least a respect for those who may think different from you, I would pass on this one.
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- Art H
- 10-11-18
Interplanetary ROAD TRIP!
If this book was a wine, I would say I detected a bouquet of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,"
with overtones of Edward Abbey's "Monkey Wrench Gang." If those vintages are too dusty for you to remember, how about Yatzee Croshaw's "Mogworld" mixed with Scott Meyer's "Off to Be the Wizard" - but with far more social commentary.
Strident? Hell yes! And it's about time someone was! When half your country is in a nose-dive toward environmental oblivion and reactionary social injustice, it's refreshing to see someone call out religious and political extremists for their planet-destroying nonsense. It's even better when the author paints the outcome clearly, using the known results of following delusional approaches to their disastrous consequences.
Time travel, rock and roll, environmentalism, sex, booze, and equality. What does it take to pull it all together into a social commentary romp? Good, solid story telling and an entertaining plot. Like any good social commentator, Essen doesn't step away from the occasional opportunity to plop one of his characters on a soapbox, (or a potato-shaped boulder) to give a dandy lecture. You already know the general rant; it's the one you have really, really wanted to give to certain relatives who think we still live in 1950 and want to drag you and everyone else back into those dark ages with them. But 95% of the time Essen spins a yarn that rolls forward unstoppably, like the ball in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
While a shot of this book will help the spirits of open-minded people everywhere, not everyone is a candidate for this medicine. Contra-indications include a propensity to think the bible is literal truth, that religion gives better answers than science, or a belief that people with non-traditional beliefs or sexual orientations should have fewer rights and less self-determination. Homophobes should also stay well away; this book includes a lovely lesbian heroine who is NOT simply a girl in need of a male appendage. And if you think unrestrained capitalism and the exploitation of the environment for profit is more important than the flora and fauna that share the planet with us , you will definitely have an adverse reaction.
For the rest of us, those of us who give a damn about equal rights, the environment, and social responsibility? This book is a great big romp and a wonderful adventure. As an added bonus, the author has a wonderful knowledge of rock and roll that permeates "Time is Irreverent" from cover to cover.
The narration is first-rate. Often, narrators struggle to do the voices of both sexes. One or two characters struck me as a touch odd, but everyone was believable, and the main characters are all performed perfectly, male and female. The narrator even appears to have read the book in advance, so inflections always match the speech tags, and the tone of the scene.
I give this five stars for the delightful seven hours of optimistic entertainment and just fun it delivered, and for the great narration.
PS: I heard a rumor that there is a sequel in the works. That is a second coming I actually look forward to!
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- TU
- 06-26-18
Not for me, too mean spirited
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
So, this was clearly geared (as the synopsis points out) as a Trump bashing book. Again, the synopsis on Audible clearly indicate this is highly liberally slanted. So I won't ding it for that alone. I'm not going to get into my personal politics on Audible, but I am neither a Trump supporter or Anti-Trump. I've found both good and bad from all of the presidents that I've lived through in this country. Anyway, this book just came across more mean spirited than good natured ribbing. It seemed cruel and I honestly did not find it very funny. For this to have been a better listening experience, I think it should have been less biased and mocked both sides equally. That way it would at least appeal to a broader audiance, instead of the far left-leaning Trump haters. Like I said, that is solely my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure others may find it funny.
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- Robert
- 06-11-18
Don't waste your time or credit
"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."
I only listened to the first 38 minutes of this book and I did not like any part of it. It's supposed to be funny, but I just didn't get it. Maybe the book improves later in the later chapters, but I doubt it.
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- Glenn White
- 06-04-18
I want my money back!
this book is full of liberal Prejudice and racism. Don't waste your money! crap crap crap crap crap
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- Margaret
- 08-06-20
Poignantly funny
This is the first book i have read/listened to by this author. I would definitely like to pick up book number two and three.
I guess I am very liberal because I did not find this book was really too far out there. Yes, it touches on all the “touchy” subjects, so I can see how someone with a very narrow minded point of view about religion, politics, sexuality or society in general would have issues with this book.
There are quite a few poignant moments in this book involving what a horrible job us humans have done in behaving ‘humanely’ to each other and the earth. Add to that our reliance on religion to justify many of those acts. To have those discussed with humor and have the characters trying to right these wrongs makes for a great book when written as well as this one is.
The ‘nice’ aliens were entertaining and this mix of sci-fi was great. I loved the abduction of the parents.
This is the first book I have listened to by this narrator ( Michael Fell ). He brought out the light, and humorous tone to the story. For the most part, his male and female character voices were well done. There was one female alien whose voice was odd and I never did rewind to see if she was described as such. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his narration.
There are no explicit sex scenes, excessive violence or excessive swearing.
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Story 5/5
Narration 5/5
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- Jon Doe
- 06-26-20
Quirky sci-fi with a queer twist!
First off, seeing as it is an audiobook, the reader is well paced, and fluent. I listened for hours, and enjoyed every minute of it. Backups were only needed when I was distracted from the story by work matters, and everything was easy to keep up on from there.
In terms of the story, its not often I can find good LGBT+/GSRM friendly science fiction like this, with humans as the sexual minority, rather than the aliens alone. If you are a Trump supporter, steer clear. If you are a queer agnostic atheist, with a love of quirky sci-fi, you may have just found the next book on your list. I was pleasantly surprised by the books portrayal of a number of things, the best of which was a good look into the dynamics of consent, and the issues involved with pressuring a partner in an emotionally fragile state. Not enough fiction really can delve into this with tact and subtlety, working it in rather than forcing it with a crowbar.
In the end, I think this is an author the big publishers should be watching out for. So much the better if they are going to keep up with their antics. With any luck, he can erase them from the history books.
I requested a free review copy of this audiobook, with expectation of my honest review. Thank you for allowing me to listen to and review the book, I think I have found something I am going to get a lot of enjoyment recommending, as well as listening to again.
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- lisamcintire
- 05-17-19
Outrageously funny!
“Listener discretion advised” is an understatement! This book was freakin hilarious. Though laced with political undertones, this book is a true comedic masterpiece. If you don’t laugh when listening, see a doctor, your sense of humor may be missing! Marty Essen’s mix of overt and subtle religious and political humor made me laugh so hard that I caution you about listening while driving. Sit back, strap in and let this roller coaster thrill you to very last page! It has everything. Aliens, time travel, sex, booze, and a pretty awesome rock and roll themed cast of characters. As a Green Bay Packers fan, I thought the “Favre” jab was a work of genius! Looking forward to the next book!
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- SAM
- 04-30-19
Was not dissapointed
Just as funny as suggested! This book was an endless source of amusement for me.
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