Tak, a down-on-his-luck former star of a TV survival show, gets a call that will change his life... and everyone else's. The Axon Corporation and their brilliant scientist, Charles Yates, have invented the impossible: a machine that can transport people through time and into alternate realities. But they don't know how to use it, and they've hired Tak for his adventuring skills, to explore the new dimensions. When Tak discovers that the Axon chairmen intend to override Tak's reality with one in which Axon controls the entire world, he knows they must be stopped - because in that world Samira, the woman Tak has loved since childhood, has died. As Tak races to stop the machine and save Samira, he discovers that Yates has his own agenda - one even more terrifying than what Axon has planned.
The Beautiful Land is a slick, edgy futuristic story and the winner of the Breakthrough Novel Award for new writers. The novel presents a clever solution to the time-travel paradox (what happens if you go back in time and kill your own grandfather?). But it also draws its main characters in wonderful detail: Tak, the thrill-seeking loner with much to regret, and Samira, an Iraq War veteran suffering post-traumatic stress. It's an engaging, suspenseful tale with a suprising depth. -
Michelle (Sunset)
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