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  • Anachronist: A Time Travel Adventure

  • The Infinity Engines, Book 1
  • By: Andrew Hastie
  • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
  • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (93 ratings)

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Anachronist: A Time Travel Adventure

By: Andrew Hastie
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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Summary

Traveling into the past using the timelines of ancient artefacts, the Oblivion Order explore the forgotten centuries, ones that never made it into the history books. Weaving back through time, the secret society of eccentric anachronists ensures the best possible future for humanity, making subtle adjustments to the past—saving us from oblivion. Every alteration is carefully calculated, and nothing is left to chance. Until the day Joshua Jones, a teenage thief, breaks into one of their station houses and finds himself transported back to 1944—where he accidentally changes the outcome of WW2. Josh is inadvertently pulled into their secret world of alternate realities, temporal guilds and chaos demons. With the help of Caitlin, a beautiful librarian, he learns to harness his abilities as she shows him a future he never dreamed he could have. But beyond the temporal borders, an ancient evil is gathering, threatening to devour every moment that ever was. Will Josh fulfil his destiny? Will he come to terms with his past? A fast-paced time travel adventure, Anachronist will take you on a journey into a world not bound by the rules of time, exploring history and the consequences of changing it.

©2018 Andrew Hastie (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

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Narrator was brilliant as usual

Good time travel storytelling that kept me engrossed all the way through so now looking forward to part two.

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amazing

I feel like I've found the time travel book I've been looking for. amazing story, narrated incredibly, can't wait for second book.

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Excellent

Really good narration and story keeps your attention Can’t wait for the next book in series

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Inspiring


A truly brilliant first book of the series. Fantastically read with twists and turns throughout. Can’t wait to read book 2.

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Absolutely Brilliant

A wonderful story. Hugely engaging and brilliantly told. A mixture of fantasy and sci fi it was hard to put down. I can’t wait for the next instalment

And also a word about the brilliant narration. Could not have been better.

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time travel story done well

looking forward to the next book now
Good start to the series can't say better than that

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Wildly imaginative time travel adventures

This author has a vivid and colourful imagination. I somewhat struggled to comprehend the settings and got annoyed with the coded dates, but otherwise there’s so many different little adventures that are very inspired. Revolves around a rough London teen who’s on the poor and criminal end of society, until he mixes with a time travel agency, so to speak. This story makes use of many cultures to provide varied twists throughout.

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Brilliantly read

So happy this has made it to an audiobook.
Great storyline and really well read by Rupert.
Looking forward to the rest of them making it to audio too.
Awesome work.

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Wow. Took a punt and what a winner.

Absolutely loved this book. Story and narration were top notch. It wasn’t an author I knew but a genre I’m fond of so took a gamble and came up trumps. I loved every minute of this audio book, so well written, nuanced and smart. Have immediately downloaded the next two in the series and am starting the second book straight away. Cannot recommend enough.

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So much better than reading the book. Can’t wait for the sequel.

I was delighted to see this book published on Audible. I have read the book and much of the series. However the performance by Rupert Degas took the experience a much higher level of enjoyment. I have preordered the sequel and can’t wait to dive back into the worlds of Josh and Caitlin.

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