Cosmic Journeys

ADAM
A history professor named Adam Greyfeather awakens one day to find he has been transported back in time to a point before life appeared on the Earth. He also finds that he has become immortal. With no clue as to how or why he found himself in the improbable situation he was in. He was forced to conclude that he had to have been sent back to witness first hand, the evolutionary history of the Earth.
To his amazement and taxing his ability to cope with living for such an unfathomable amount of time. Adam learns that life evolved on our planet not just once, but many times and in very different ways, and not always naturally. For as present day astronomers have predicted. It is not a matter of if, but more a matter of when, large celestial objects impact planets such as our Earth. And just as predictable, is that from time to time these objects are large enough to obliterate not just all the life on a given planet, but all signs that life ever existed at all.
As the eons pass, Adam encounters many intelligent beings, some friendly, some not. But what he learns is inevitable, is that each is destined to die in their turn. That is until he is so moved by one very special species he calls “Earthlings,” that he decides to push them to develop the technology to escape and go on living.
Adam believed he had saved a species that had become very beloved to him. But in actuality, he had put in motion a mysterious series of events that leads to his transformation into an immortal being, and his journey through time.

A WORLD DIVIDED
On a bizarre planet where the only continent is a steep strip of land stretching along the entire equator, Transportation Director Massel Coltroy seems to be the only man who believes that somehow breeching the Great Barrier Ridge is the best hope for his people. Isolated from the southern half of their planet by an impossibly high ridge, the mystery of what lie beyond, both terrifies and bewilders these people with technology barely equal to early 19th century Earth. But for some it holds out hope for a beleaguered people pushed to the limits of their world.
Population pressures have brought Uragan to the brink of social breakdown and chaos. With such a limited amount of land, and without the technology to breech the Great Barrier, war seems the only answer. But Massel is determined to help his people avoid such a disaster.
Massel manages to get the government of his district of Moller to back his idea to dig a tunnel through the Great Barrier Ridge. But not without making some very powerful and obsessively dangerous enemies who seem hell bent on making their district one of military dynasty.
After years of digging with no success in reaching the other side, Massel’s government abandons him and he is forced to leave his homeland in disgrace. After landing in the nearby district of Casindrill, Massel finds himself working next to the grandson of Hagenlo Normoff, Bewer Normoff. A generation before he had attempted to conquer the Great Ridge by using a pressure suit he invented himself to climb over the top. Unable to garner the support of the Casindrill government, Hagenlo became angry and set off alone in his pressure suit never to be seen again.
To his surprise, Massel learns that Bewer has kept his grandfather’s journals and drawings. Armed with Hagenlo’s data, his own engineering experience, and the help of Bewer, a liaison of the Casindrill government named Calayra Hibbin, and the support of the Casindrill government. Massel seizes the opportunity to make a new attempt at breeching the Great Barrier Ridge using updated pressure suits.
But before they can begin their trek, the army from Massel’s home district attacks Casindrill with the intent of seizing it’s land and resources for themselves, all in the name of survival. Massel knew their only chance to survive was to climb the Ridge, so the three team members set out. Despite nearly being caught by enemy soldiers, Massel and his team make it to the other side.
They discover a world of valleys and mountains stretching to the horizon. And that people just like them live there. But more spectacular than that, they discover that the bizarre geology of their planet they call Uragan, is the result of an ancient celestial impact directly into the North Pole. What the Great Barrier Ridge was in actuality, was the rim of an impossibly huge crater that covered nearly the entire northern hemisphere of the planet. A planet the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere called Earth.

DIVERGENCE
Two young physicists, working for a defense department contractor, find themselves trapped in a time travel paradox. Mark Porter and Arnold Bauer graduated at the top of their class and worked on cutting edge projects dealing with quantum theory.
Arnold, whose grandparents were holocaust victims is obsessed with what could have been, had they lived. Using data gathered from the discovery of quantum fissures around back holes, Arnie builds a time machine. What to do with it was a forgone conclusion for Arnie, so he travels back and kills Adolph Hitler creating a divergence in the timeline.
Mark who was working in a nearby lab when Arnie activates his time machine gets caught in the space time continuum wake. Although he is not transported back in time, he awakens in the new timeline with his memory of the original timeline left intact.
Mark finds himself in a technologically stagnant world ruled from Communist Russia. Mark also learns that the world of this timeline is about to face the epidemics of HIV, Ecoli, and the like with medical technology stuck in the 1930’s.
After learning that the man he knew as Arnie Bauer had died of old age several years earlier and that he was survived by a son named Joel. Mark set out to see if there was any chance of fixing the mess his old friend had created. Arnie had spent the rest of his life trying to build another time machine, but died before he could finish. But with Mark’s help, he and Joel finished it and traveled back to stop Arnie and set things right.
But every attempt to fix the timeline ends in the creation of a new timeline causing the last to loop back on itself. After years of failures, Mark makes an attempt to get Arnie’s grandparents to leave Germany before Hitler seizes power. But all he does is convince them that he’s out of his mind and they report him to the police. His last memory is the sensation of bullets slamming into his head and body as Gestapo officers gun him down when he tried running from them.
But instead of being dead, he awakens in a hospital room, but he is in the original timeline where all is well. When he returns to work he is informed that his friend Arnie was killed in the explosion that had inured him. It was an unauthorized time travel experiment. But they discovered a mistake in Dr. Bauer’s formula, one that he would have easily overlooked.
Mark realized that it had to have been Arnie himself who somehow was able to travel to a point in time before his first trip back and sabotage himself, preventing him from making that first trip, thus repairing the divergence in time.

DEAD MAN’S CANYON
The 18 year old son of a southern Idaho rancher named Sam Bartow is more than he seems. Even at such a young age he had the reputation as the most accomplished hunter and outdoorsman in the territory. What no one knew except for a Native American medicine man Named Abraham Lookstwice, was that more than one spirit dwelled in this remarkable young man.
The spirit of Erokahn dwelled in him, for it was this spirits last phase of it’s Earthly existence. Before he could ascend to heaven, Erokahn had to live one life time as a mortal. But Erokahn had an enemy from the spirit world called Kaynor. A demon spirit of cruelty and malice. Through out the eons every encounter between these two spirit beings ended in defeat and humiliation for Kaynor.
In this level of existence, if Kaynor can…