The Last Timerunner

Summary of the book »The Last Timerunner«

The novel continues the story from another science fiction book I wrote years ago: »The Timerunners«. There a group of people finds a number of special abilities in themselves, that come from the awakening of an extradimensional entity following the shockwave of a supernova explosion. Let’s call those abilities kind of magical or supernatural. Another storyline in this first book tells about magicians from a long ago past who were trying to timetravel to a future where their dying magic would work again. In their own time the magic disappeared due to the vanishing of said entity into a long sleep. Those are the actual timerunners. In our present the two groups meet each other and find opposition not only in the entity but the local police and government. They fight against the odds and learn from each other until finally the extradimensional entity offers them a way into other worlds where magic is more normal. There is only one problem: One of the timerunners from the past (it’s not exactly our past, but that’s beside the point) has gone evil and uses his power accordingly. Even if all of them left our world, he would remain and continue to be a danger.

They all but one went to other worlds (that are other books of mine) and that was the end of the first book.

Now we enter the new book. A certain family of three likes to come to Cyprus every year and the book begins with the preparations of their next trip. The main character, Martin W. Melnik, is a successful editor. He has only some nightmares and uncanny visions, so don’t mention it. Well, on the island they meet an old friend every time the get there, a physicist named Tarakian.

Of course, the nightmares and strange visions mean that Melnik is the last one of the good timerunners and he killed the evil one years ago. Then he blocked his own memory of his adventures and settled down. Why does he wake up now?

It’s that extradimensional thing again. It sees how humanity is destroying the planet with climate change and everything, but it won’t or can’t intervene. So it reactivates the last remaining mage on Earth and orders him to save the planet. No pressure.

After he has remembered himself, Melnik goes about the business of establishing an organization to do just this. It’s headquarters are on Cyprus where the family has moved to and his friend there plays a key-role in accomplishing it. Of course it helps that Melnik is now in the possession of various bank accounts of the evil timerunner he secured years ago. There is resistance against his plans, but with his magical powers he can overcome it. Melnik gets Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and a number of others on the table and things proceed after a certain president, a North-Korean leader and others are out of the game. He has to travel back in time at a point to prevent nuclear war, but again, no pressure.

With the help of a lot of money and a bit of alien technology they are able to build CO₂-scrubbers into flying pyramids (anti-gravity powered) at the end. Earth and mankind will be saved and make it to the stars at last.