Light Across Time | Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tom Learmont

In this compelling and entertaining new novel, Alan Stevens and Melanie Austin are London-based journalists, newly dating. They meet Elemer Urban, a charming older man full of intriguing, if far-fetched, anecdotes. Elemer insists that the X-crystals on his strange grey and black ring are linked to time travel and challenges Alan and Mel to take up a quest of his devising. The lovers firmly believe that Elemer is a crackpot charlatan, and they set out to prove it, but they soon find themselves on an adventure in London, Johannesburg, the Free State – and the deep, deep past – that reveals to them a world they could never have imagined. Light Across Time is a genre-bending Science Fiction romance – with a liberal splash of Nabokov – and should win Tom Learmont a dedicated following.

“This work is unprecedented, and an immensely enjoyable, satisfying and even mind-broadening read – possibly doing for evolution what Sophie’s World did for philosophy.” - Reader

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