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Julian Dawson wakes up in a strange world, one slightly different than his own, with a family he doesn't recognize. When he meets a traveler who leads him to the megalomaniacal Game Master, Julian is thrust into a multiverse of tasks, each more dangerous and destructive than the last.

The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right. He would try harder. With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick. Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway.

What would you do if you woke up and found yourself in a parallel universe under an alien sky? This is the question Zax Delatree must answer every time he closes his eyes. Every time Zax Delatree falls asleep, he travels to a new reality. He has no control over his destination and never knows what he will see when he opens his eyes. Sometimes he wakes up in technological utopias, and other times in the bombed-out ruins of collapsed civilizations.

It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of the beautiful and vivacious Holly, and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a run-in with a former childhood bully sees him bruised and bloody and almost drowning in the Thames. He awakes the next day only to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognize, with no idea of how he got there. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he's older - much older - and has been living a hard life, his features ravaged by time and poor decisions.

Der schwerreiche Vater der vermissten Anna-Lena van Dam schickt den Ex-Soldaten Viktor mit einem fünfköpfigen Geo-Expertenteam los, um seine Tochter zu suchen. In einem gigantischen Höhlensystem entdeckt die Gruppe mehrere Türen mit mysteriösen Zeichen. Um Anna-Lena zu retten, müssen sie sich auf Pfade jenseits von Wissenschaft und Vernunft einlassen - Eine der Türen führt die Gruppe mitten in die 40er Jahre. Doch hier hat Nazi-Deutschland früh kapituliert, die USA haben kolonialgleiche Kontrolle über Europa übernommen und drohen dem Widerstand, angeführt von Russland, mit einem Atomschlag.

A master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time...Ren has heard rumors of “Clockers” - the Descendants of Time who can travel through portals. But until she can find the portal Poe accidentally used to reach 21st Century Baltimore, she’s stuck with him. And there is a problem: Someone else has seen Poe and now they’re hunting for him. Not even Ren’s fledgling friendship with Officer Nick Pieretti will keep the vigilante away.

When 13-year-old Julian Daniels’ mother abandons him in 1928, he leaves his small town in Missouri, running away from a past full of enemies and broken promises. Hundreds of miles away in Cheyenne, Wyoming, schoolteacher Catherine takes him in to her home, unaware of his troubled past. When alone in her house, Julian makes a discovery that will allow him to leave behind his troubled life - and his time - forever. Unable to leave behind his criminal habits, he steals something valuable to her and makes his escape to the future.

Having escaped the world of Arena, Stormer and his companions discover a door that takes them to another place - or is it another time? It is a land in which people not only know about the outlawed Ancient Book, but many believe it. No one has heard about the lies of the Book of the Great Teachings of Arena. Just when all of them are breathing deeply the air of freedom and relief from oppression, an old diary presents itself. What really is the truth after all?

Stacked in the back of Dora's Explorables Antique Shop is an old wooden door with a secret. What would you do if you could go back in time? Would you try to fix the past? Or grab yourself a new future? Jessup's Door is a 12,000-word short story about time and love.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. The Time Machine, first published in 1895, is possibly Wells' most famous work. It tells the story of the inventor of a vehicle which allows him to travel in time and his firsthand account of his adventures as he travels millions of years into the future, where mankind has evolved into something very different from the humans of the 19th century.